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Key customer growth
This measure calculates the percentage of a business entity's growth in revenue over the past year for key customers (i.e. the top 20 percent of customers in terms of…
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Percentage of customers who can name brand in unaided recall test
This measure calculates the percentage of customers who can name your brand/product based on surveys/sampling of customers who participate in an unaided recall test. It is…
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Percentage of customers who can name brand in unaided recall test measured 12 months ago
This measure calculates the percentage of customers which could name the brand in an unaided recall test 12 months ago. This Process Efficiency measure is intended to help…
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Number of FTEs for the phase 'generate new product/service ideas' per $1 billion revenue
This measure calculates the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) employees per $1 billion dedicated to the phase ‘generate new product /service ideas,' which involves…
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Personnel cost of the phase 'generate new product/service ideas' per $1,000 revenue
This measure calculates personnel cost (per $1,000 revenue) of the phase ‘generate new product/service ideas,' which involves identifying potential improvements/extensions…
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Total cost of the phase 'generate new product/service ideas' per $1,000 revenue
This measure calculates the total cost (per $1,000 revenue) of the phase ‘generate new product/service ideas,' which involves identifying potential improvements/extensions…
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Key customer profitability
This measure calculates the year-to-year percentage change in a business entity's profitability from key customers (i.e. the top 20 percent of customers in terms of currency…
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Outsourced cost of the phase 'generate new product/service ideas' per $1,000 revenue
This measure calculates outsourced cost (per $1,000 revenue) of the phase ‘generate new product/service ideas,' which involves identifying potential improvements/extensions…
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Other cost of the phase 'generate new product/service ideas' per $1,000 revenue
This measure calculates other cost (per $1,000 revenue) of the phase ‘generate new product/service ideas,' which involves identifying potential improvements/extensions for…
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Overhead cost of the phase 'generate new product/service ideas' per $1,000 revenue
This measure calculates overhead cost (per $1,000 revenue) of the phase ‘generate new product/service ideas,' which involves identifying potential improvements/extensions for…
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Systems cost of the phase 'generate new product/service ideas' per $100,000 revenue
This measure calculates systems cost (per $100,000 revenue) of the phase ‘generate new product/service ideas,' which involves identifying potential improvements/extensions…
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Total cost of the phase 'generate new product/service ideas per concept (pre-design phase)
This measure calculates the total cost per concept (pre-design phase) of the phase ‘generate new product/service ideas,' which involves identifying potential improvements…
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Relative change in brand performance over the past three years
This measure calculates the percentage of relative change in brand performance over the past three years; a negative percentage denotes declining performance. It is part of a…
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Percentage of parts that are common across major product lines
This measure calculates the percentage of common components across significant products, providing companies with critical information to execute the "perform discovery…
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Growth or decline of the count of active finished products/SKUs over the past three years
This measure calculates the percentage of growth or decline in number of active finished products/stock keeping units (SKUs) over the past three years. It is part of a set of…