Metrics
What numbers consultants lead with.
Every slide that foregrounds a metric — 7,750 in total — classified into families by what's being measured. Drill in to see who uses each family, where in the narrative, and the real examples.
Metric families
7,750 metric-led slides1266
Survey & sentiment
What people said — respondents, priorities, sentiment, NPS.
16.3%
1110
Market size & value
Scale of the pool — TAM, GMV, AUM, deal value, investment, funding.
14.3%
709
Cost & savings
What's spent or saved — costs, spend, savings, efficiency, abatement.
9.1%
541
Share & penetration
Piece of the pie — market share, adoption, penetration, uptake.
7.0%
491
Growth rate
Speed of change — CAGR, YoY, growth rate.
6.3%
261
Rates & ratios
Other rates — retention, conversion, representation, distress.
3.4%
324
Employment & headcount
People at work — employees, FTEs, productivity, jobs.
4.2%
226
Indices & scores
Composite indicators — confidence indices, rankings, ratings.
2.9%
218
Margin & return
Economic quality — margins, ROI/ROE/ROIC, TSR, profit.
2.8%
212
Environment & emissions
Green metrics — GHG, emissions, hydrogen, renewables.
2.7%
187
Volume & counts
Raw counts — number of X, transactions, deals.
2.4%
141
Revenue & sales
Top line — revenue, sales, GVA.
1.8%
76
Macro indicators
Economy-wide signals — inflation, unemployment, PMI.
1.0%
23
Valuation
Asset worth — present value, pre-money, exit value.
0.3%
1965
Other
Domain-specific or uncategorized long-tail.
25.4%
Filtered by index_score
· function benchmark_peers
· clear
Where in the narrative
| analyze_data | 105 |
| benchmark_peers | 38 |
| establish_context | 21 |
| diagnose | 21 |
| frame_problem | 12 |
| illustrate_case | 8 |
| appendix | 5 |
| present_framework | 4 |
| plan_implementation | 4 |
| cite_precedent | 3 |
| transition | 1 |
| recommend | 1 |
Number shape
| plain | 157 |
| percent | 60 |
| multiplier | 8 |
| other | 1 |
38 examples
2x
Companies in the top quartile of our Digital Core Index are 2X ahead in terms of integration and end-to-end visibility (CCP) capabilities, compared to their bottom-quartile peers
“Top-quartile companies excel two times more in these areas than bottom-quartile peers (figure 6).”
42%
42% of C-suite leaders say skills shortage is one of the top 3 challenges that would hold back their organizations' ability to respond to change. It is particularly a major concern in the healthcare industry.
“It is particularly a major concern in the healthcare industry.”
57
Figure 3: The risky (albeit improving) operational environment has left our target markets less attractive to business investments
“The good news is that existing digital technologies are already mitigating many operational issues.”
16 pp
Long-term profitable growth companies consistently outperform their peers in all measures of resilience over time—and emerge from crises stronger
“Long-term profitable growth companies consistently outperform their peers in all measures of resilience over time—and emerge from crises stronger”
60 vs 44
Turning pilots into production
“Achievers in North America are 5% more likely to scale AI pilots across the enterprise compared with Experimenters.”
11
The European Union publishes the most on quantum topics, but the United States leads in impact of published material.
“US publications have the highest impact as measured by h-index, indicating a leading position in academic research.”
4.5
Firm and industry sector differences in marketing analytics' contribution to company performance
“Mean rating of marketing analytics' contribution to company performance is 4.5 (1= Not at all; 7= Very highly).”
55
Turning pilots into production
“Achievers are 25% more likely to scale AI pilots across the enterprise compared with Experimenters.”
11%
The European Union leads in quantum-relevant publications, but the United States outcompetes in impact
“US publications have the highest impact measured by h-index indicating a leading position in academic research”
18
EXHIBIT 8: Majority of AI clusters driving innovation located in the US
29
DF9 are well positioned globally on AI readiness when accounting for size
“Using key proxies for indicators of potential to harness the AI opportunity ("AI readiness") and adjusting underlying measures for scale, the global top 29 coun…”
78
An external study confirms the F-150 is the most American-made full-size pickup
“The F-150 leads the industry both in number of vehicles sold and as the most American-made truck”
39%
Digital Production Management along with Digital Program Management are critical skills to scale digital PoCs
“Digital Production Management along with Digital Program Management are critical skills to scale digital PoCs”
84%
Germany/Austria/Switzerland among countries in transformation with 84% LGBT+ feeling comfortable in the business environment
133
Lebanon lags behind peers on ease of doing business, which severely impacts the industrial sector (especially SMEs)
39
Lebanon has a lenient visa policy for majority of countries
“Most other nationalities get visa on arrival for a fee of 30 USD, slightly higher than peer average of 22 USD”
3.6
Lebanon performs poorly on safety and security and ranks 125th /140 countries
“Internationally, Lebanon rank 125th/140 on the safety & Security Score...”
3.4
Lebanon lags global hubs and regional peers on innovation
“However, compared to leading global hubs and regional peers, Lebanon lags ~1 point in scoring”
143
Compared to global hubs and regional peers, Lebanon ranks last on starting a business, and 143th worldwide
“Lebanon scores 12 points lower than global and regional peers on ease of starting a business. Number of procedures to start a business stands at 8, ~33% higher …”
2.46
When looking into BPO Lebanon ranks highly on cost and talent but lags peers mainly on infrastructure and risk profile
“Index scale – 1 is the most attractive and 5 is the least attractive score”
2.67
When looking into KPO Lebanon ranks highly on cost and talent but lags peers mainly on infrastructure, risk profile and industry size
“Index scale – 1 is the most attractive and 5 is the least attractive score”
102
C5 Cumbersome real estate registration process, as well as excessive taxation has further deterred foreign investors post the real estate boom
2.72
Lebanon's logistics infrastructure is weak relative to regional peers
“Underdeveloped logistic sector is reflected through a low LPI score compared to peers”
2.65
Lebanon's logistics infrastructure is weak relative to regional peers
181
Today, Beirut ranks poorly when compared to regional and global peers
“Total number of 231 cities in the survey”
-29
Compared to 2012, Lebanon’s 2018 “doing business” index moved down 29 ranks, mainly due to worsening on 8 out of the 10 criteria
“Overall ranking for getting credit is low because there is no accredited private credit bureau”
133
Lebanon has made very little effort in the last 6 years to introduce reforms and improve the business environment
“Last reform for the doing business environment was made 6 years ago”
41.66
Each subsector’s competitiveness was scored based on assessment of comparative advantages relative to peers
73
Lebanon has yet to fully embrace digital disruptions, while other countries' governments have greatly benefited from digitization efforts
“Lebanon's government still lags in terms of digitization.”
5
Pharma players in Japan generally lag behind digital leaders across most elements of digital enablement
788
Only two European cities in Top 20 financial centers globally
“Only London and Frankfurt rank among Top 20 financial centers globally. New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago are among the 20 financial loca…”
182.7
RETAIL SIGNIFICANTLY LAGS OTHER INDUSTRIES IN MATURITY, CGS LEADS
63%
RETAIL LAGS IN REVIEWING TALENT PIPELINES AND RECOGNIZING I&D RELATED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
“Leadership Behaviors – Leadership acts so that those having different backgrounds are welcomed, treated equally in the organization and their voices are heard.”
6,679
Strong response across the organization, and results compared to Public Sector benchmarks
“We have provided absolute scores, but quartile placement is more important to identify hot spots”
Overall: High
“Everest Group assessment – Leader”
56/100
“Our analysis shows that on average the companies we surveyed exhibit a maturity score of 56/100 (see figure 3) across all 31 capabilities for resilience (see fi…”
84%
60
“For the world's 2,000 largest firms by market cap, the percentage of Achievers was even smaller: 10%.”