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 other
· function benchmark_peers
· clear
Where in the narrative
| analyze_data | 748 |
| establish_context | 270 |
| illustrate_case | 205 |
| diagnose | 153 |
| benchmark_peers | 115 |
| frame_problem | 108 |
| recommend | 98 |
| quantify_impact | 69 |
| size_opportunity | 51 |
| decompose_segments | 32 |
| present_framework | 28 |
| appendix | 27 |
Number shape
| percent | 1032 |
| plain | 727 |
| money | 145 |
| multiplier | 51 |
| other | 10 |
80 examples
showing first 80-0.13%
Firms in the UK struggle to pass along costs to consumers, while the US, Euro area, and China show slightly stronger cost absorption amid differing market dynamics
“Firms in the UK struggle to pass along costs to consumers, while the US, Euro area, and China show slightly stronger cost absorption amid differing market dynam…”
7%
Only 7% of organizations are adept at using new technologies to manage and communicate with stakeholders, yet they increase the likelihood of delivering on commitments by over 30% in brownfield and greenfield projects.
“Only 7% of organizations are adept at using new technologies to manage and communicate with stakeholders, yet they increase the likelihood of delivering on comm…”
28%
Proportion of financial services in the top two levels of data maturity (influential or embedded) compared with the cross-sector average across nine key data management categories
“28% percentage point year-on-year uplift in the number of financial services companies in the two highest levels of maturity (influential and embedded).”
Leader
Trust and Safety Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 | Accenture is positioned as a Leader
“Accenture is positioned as a Leader”
+3.5 pp
PE-owned companies have been making progress on social topics, including in overall job creation and bringing diverse perspectives to leadership
“Private markets have continued to outpace public peers in job creation, despite economic headwinds... and increased the prevalence of women in leadership roles …”
USD 164bn
Only China and Canada have retaliated to date, though EU has signaled potential countermeasures depending on how negotiations evolve
“Retaliatory measures enacted or threatened in response to US tariffs”
20
HFS Horizons: The Best Service Providers for Commercial Banks, 2025— summary of providers assessed in this report
75%+
Accenture: Integrated capabilities to transform the end-to-end commercial banking lifecycle
“Accenture leverages its full suite of services—strategy and consulting, technology, operations, and Song—to transform the entire lifecycle of commercial banks.”
17%
France's restructuring pressure matches EU's overall and is slightly milder than Germany's and the Nordics'
“France's trend is consistent with easing trend in DACH, but contrasts with the increasing pressure Italy and the UK are experiencing.”
+17pp
Leading marketers cascade marketing objectives from business goals and standardize KPIs across decision making stages
Horizon 3 - Market Leader
Accenture: Reinvention through innovation, ecosystem partnerships, and operational excellence
“Accenture serves almost all of the top 20 largest healthcare payer service providers and PBMs and over 70% of the largest health systems in North America.”
33pp
The pressure to transform is particularly high in Germany, Austria, and the Nordic countries
63%
Risk leaders are empowering the business
“Across all surveyed dimensions, risk leaders outperform their peers with less mature capabilities. They are four times more likely to say they are 'very satisfi…”
55
Employees are increasingly prioritizing disability inclusion when evaluating employers - measured as average disability inclusion-related mentions per company in Glassdoor reviews
“Notably, these same organizations received 4x as many positive reviews related to disability inclusion when compared to their industry peers, signaling a positi…”
0.6%
SME ACCESS TO NEW LENDING: NEW SME LENDING IS LOWER AND FALLING IN THE NETHERLANDS COMPARED TO PEER JURISDICTIONS
“The level of new lending to micro SMEs has fallen from an already low 1% of GDP to 0.6% of GDP compared to ~3% in peer countries.”
~13% (Portugal, highest)
European banks generally have lower sovereign debt exposure than US banks, but negative confidence effects could still lead to tighter credit standards and reduced lending
“Portugal, Italy and Greece are the major countries with the largest exposure to sovereign debt within their banks' balance sheets. However, the failure of Silic…”
55
In the wake of recent US bank failures, perceived credit risk has risen the most for companies in the financial, real estate and energy sectors
“Largest increases have been for financials and other interest-rate sensitive sectors such as real estate and energy”
5%
While global indices have declined in value, BVSP has demonstrated resilience especially between 2021 and 2022
“While global indices have declined in value, BVSP has demonstrated resilience especially between 2021 and 2022.”
248%
~2/3 of technology-driven companies are currently trading below pre-pandemic 2020 prices, with some of the major tech indices declining to as low as ~50% from their pre-pandemic prices. However the tech stocks in Brazil have demonstrated resilience relative to other major tech indices
“Investors in tech stocks have changed their perspective since late 2021, in line with the macroeconomic trends - persistent inflation, war, and the looming rece…”
47%
While in traditional education Latin America has performed broadly in line with other global markets however in Ed-tech Latin America and China are observed to be more resilient than other geographies over the past one year
“Ed-tech Latin America and China are observed to be more resilient than other geographies over the past one year.”
4500
Comparison of RAS adoption in Latin America vis-à-vis mature markets indicates clear white space for growth across markets
135,511
The European Union has the highest number and concentration of QT talent.
12
Canada is a leader in generating climate tech startups
“Canada produced 454 climate tech startups over the last 5 years - ranking third in the peer set and trailing only the USA and UK.”
12
Many Canadian startups are emerging as global champions
“Canada particularly strong in Energy & Power / Resources & Environment / Materials & Chemicals”
0.3
French deskless workers similarly driven by more emotional needs
5.6
B2C product companies show strength in marketing analytics
$34k
Priced at a considerable premium to mid-price and public schools ...
-32.7%
Time to market varies across segments – heavy equipment with largest past and planned reductions
“-15 weeks (-32.7%)”
84%
Future-ready organizations excel in many business areas
“future-ready organizations are ahead of the game when it comes to improvements in many areas that make a material difference to business success.”
38%
Start-ups compete for top talents
“Salary gap tends to decrease with more-senior roles”
2.1x
Ford assembled twice as many full-size pickups in the US as any competitor in 2019
“Ford assembled twice as many full-size pickups in the US as any competitor in 2019.”
84%
Ford is investing in the future of mobility
“Ford is a leader in patent family citations and number of future of mobility patents”
-5%
1b: Employment in Trade, transportation, and utilities declined by 5%, which was not as steep a decline as DC overall
4.3
5a: Among peers, Washington DC has the highest share of cyclist fatalities
“Some of the most dangerous roadways in DC for cyclists are along U Street NW, 14th Street NW, and Dupont Circle”
63.8%
AUTOMOTIVE – OES COMPANIES ARE SCALING DIGITAL POCs ACROSS BUSINESS FUNCTIONS
“Automotive – OES manufacturers are almost evenly scaling digital POCs across key business areas”
27.1%
AUTO-OES CHAMPIONS SET THEMSELVES HIGHER "RODI" TARGETS AND ACHIEVE THEM TOO.
“Automotive – OES Champions achieved over 4 times the RODI clocked by Contenders; proving that its not how much you scale, but how you scale that matters”
41%
Average and maximum discounts were deep across channels and were generally more aggressive than in 2017
“Without clear insight into what is driving response, discount depth has remained extremely high”
4%
Germany is the country where LGBT+ talents are least likely to reluctantly accept to work in a country hostile to LGBT+
5%
Germany/Austria/Switzerland is the group of countries where LGBT+ talents are least likely to accept reluctantly to work in a country hostile to LGBT+
272
Australia compares more favourably in terms of unit cost for recycling and organics waste streams
“Due to issues in recyclables supply chain this waste is potentially entering landfill. Expected to be a short-term issue but will drive extra costs”
604
Per capita generation of household waste in VIC and NSW is lower than international comparators
“Lack of policies inhibiting waste generation, or education to reduce at the source, high urbanization rates and average income contribute for the high per capit…”
100%
Trucks are typically the preferred mode of freight for household waste within the comparator set
“The majority of household waste is transported by trucks.”
61
California crushes a higher volume of grapes, whereas the cost of grape movements is lowest in South Australia
“Given that the timing of the veraison*** of grapes is within a short time window, ensuring an efficient and adequate supply of logistics is a challenge within t…”
2,966
Domestic freight distances from CA are significantly longer than from SA. Temperature control is a much larger requirement in Bordeaux
740km
The port of Melbourne is often used for international freight to meet customers’ time requirements, resulting in longer distance of road movements to port
“Limitations regarding the frequency of container vessels servicing Port Adelaide exist. In order to meet customers’ required fulfilment times, wine freight flow…”
0.6
The cost of road freight to port from SA is higher vs. comparators, with temp. controlled freight being ~2x vs. non-temp. controlled freight
6
As a means to assess the supply chain holistically, a rolled-up benchmark has been generated. Some interpretative considerations are important
“A number of important considerations to the physical differences exist that may impact the efficiency of the supply chain”
6
The Australian wine supply chain appears to be reasonably efficient against the geographies reviewed from a cost perspective
“The Australian wine supply chain appears to be reasonably efficient against the geographies reviewed from a cost perspective.”
57%
Chinese True-Luxury consumers biased to selling 2nd-hand luxury, while US biased to purchasing
92
Is overconfidence slowing progress? Most organizations think that they are ahead of, or at the same level as, their competitors
“Average on same level or ahead: 92”
5,434
The Ethereum developer community is more dominant than the nearest competing platforms.
“The Ethereum developer community is more dominant than the nearest competing platforms.”
5%
Net worker’s remittances are positive, similar to most peers. Additionally, the trend has been increasing; it expanded 5% p.a. since 2010
“Net worker’s remittances are positive, similar to most peers. Additionally, the trend has been increasing; it expanded 5% p.a. since 2010”
2.6
Lebanon’s FDI inflows followed a decreasing trend since 2009; the relative size of the flows remains above most regional peers but lags global leaders
49%
Low hotel occupancy rates have deterred private sector investments
20X
Despite high tourist satisfaction, Lebanon greatly lacks behind in terms of attracting tourists to Landmark sites
“Benchmark archeological sites currently attract up to ~20X more tourists on average than selected tourist sites in Lebanon”
2.4
However, Lebanon is less connected than peers, and presents a low perceived quality of air transport infrastructure
61st
Lebanon also lags global and regional peers in terms of number of patents
“Lebanon ranks 61st worldwide in terms of patents, ~60 times less than the average of global and regional peers”
5,000
Lebanon's process outsourcing sector is still nascent, lagging behind regional and global peers that have leveraged the sector for job creation
5.1
Lebanon ranks highest in BPO & KPO-relevant education metrics, and has a relatively large pool of tertiary graduates
“Quality of education is higher than all outsourcing hubs. Tertiary education penetration is also higher than all of the benchmarks.”
3.33
Lebanon's educational reputation for excellence is built around the prominent institutions and high-achievers in top universities
“Lebanon has a high enrollment rate in top universities compared to other regional peers”
80
Countries in the region have been increasingly able to attract outbound students, most of them from Arab countries
“Includes students of Syrian and Palestinian nationalities”
82,661
Particularly, KSA, UAE and Jordan have outpaced the UK in attracting students from the Arab states
“UAE, KSA and Jordan have outpaced the UK in attracting students from the Arab states and have become the third and fourth most popular destination (after France…”
3.3
Overall number of hospital beds and physicians per capita is in line with peers however there is a shortage in number of nurses
81
Lebanon’s overall quality of medical services meets high standards and is in line with OECD countries
24%
The sector's contribution to GDP and employment is high compared to benchmarks...
99%
Mobile coverage and quality of service is in line with peer countries
130th
Fixed sector provides coverage and pricing in line with peers; speeds however, at 6mbps, lag Syria & Iraq ranking Lebanon 130th worldwide
“However quality remains poor, with speeds of 5mbps ranking Lebanon 130th out of 133 countries”
10.5%
T&D losses are ~60% higher than top quartile
“Current T&D losses amount to 10.5% (range of 10-15%) of power demand; Current T&D losses are 3.9% higher than global top quartile T&D losses (~6.6%)”
56
Connecting new customers takes 56 days nearly double the time of global benchmarks
“Duration to get new electricity connection impacts country business attractiveness”
32
Greenhouse gases emissions are in line with global and regional averages, however air pollution is amongst highest
“Beirut ranks 2471th out of 2972th cities ranked”
1.18
When compared to benchmarks, per capita waste production is line with regional and global peers at 1.18 kg/capita/day
“Varies between 0.8 in rural areas, up to 1.2 in cities and 1.4 in metropolis (e.g. Beirut & Mount Lebanon)”
5.6
BML provides for a highly accessible healthcare network when compared to regional benchmarks but lags OECD countries
4.0
Road safety is amongst best regional and global peers; homicide rate on the other hand is amongst the highest
45%
Current size of interest repayments & personnel cost, leave a tight room for productive investments & social benefits compared to benchmarks
46%
However, public sector size in terms of employment is highest amongst regional and global benchmarks
“However, public sector size in terms of employment is highest amongst regional and global benchmarks”
1.9
Olives should be prioritized for productivity enhancement, with a focus on improving harvesting techniques
“Reliance on outdated harvesting techniques (e.g. beating & shaking trees) which reduce labor costs but can cause significant tree damage”
58%
Efforts should be made to ensure higher occupancy rates, through targeted marketing & promotion efforts, to attract private sector investors
“Marketing will be a critical short term lever to boost occupancy rates of existing hotels. Aggressive incentives will be needed in the three destinations to att…”
0%
One option to raise part of the marketing budget, would be through increasing hotel tax to be in line with peers
“Lebanon is under taxed on hotel taxes compared to benchmarks”
4
Global innovation & technology hubs managed to create ~4 companies per 10,000 for a total valuation of 5% GDP; Lebanon can create 20K jobs
“Global hubs achieved penetrations of ~3.8 startups per 100,000 people and a valuation at ~5% of region/country GDP. Assuming Lebanon can reach global hubs penet…”
17%
5 universities can potentially drive the highest growth in international students
“Capacity in the 5 selected universities needs to be assessed to ensure that international students are not taking the place of Lebanese students”