MEASUREMENT & DATA READINESS / GROWTH PROJECT™

Build confidence in the numbers behind your decisions.

Align your team on the measures that matter, understand the data behind them, and establish a practical routine for turning evidence into action.

Three colleagues comparing printed charts and discussing performance measures.

Shared measures.

More informed decisions.

What progress can look like

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A shared view of what success means and how to measure it.

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Clear ownership of priority metrics and their source data.

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A practical plan to address the most important data gaps.

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A repeatable review process that connects evidence, decisions, and next actions.

The AIRAS approach

AIRAS is how the work gets done. Mindset, skillset and toolset are what your people build.

01

Align

Choose what matters.

Agree on what matters and what success looks like.

Shared priorities. Clear ownership. Success measures.

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Inspire

See what good looks like.

Build the belief and motivation to turn challenges into progress.

Connect the work to shared business goals.

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Reflect

Know where you stand.

Build self-awareness and identify what you can change.

Surface the habits, assumptions, and barriers holding your team back.

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Apply

Build it and put it to work.

Teams learn by doing with support from expert coaches.

Review project outputs, results, and lessons with senior leaders.

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Scale

Prove it and grow it.

Turn successful projects into lasting ways of working.

Build shared playbooks and equip internal owners to sustain progress.

Built around your team’s real work.

Explore who the project is for, what is included, and how the work unfolds.

Reports are plentiful, but the team still debates definitions, questions the numbers, or struggles to connect activity to business performance. Building another dashboard will not resolve those issues on its own.

This Growth Project™ starts with the decisions you need to make. Coaching helps your team agree on useful measures, understand their limitations, and prioritize the changes that will make them more dependable.

Who this project is for

Marketing, sales, operations, and analytics leaders who need a more dependable view of performance. The working team should include the people making decisions, the owners of the measures, and those responsible for the underlying systems or data.

Start with one business priority, access to the relevant reports and definitions, and a sponsor who can resolve ownership questions.

  • Priority business questions and measurement objectives.
  • Metric definitions, owners, and source map.
  • Data-readiness assessment and prioritized improvement backlog.
  • Working scorecard and review agenda.
  • Action plan for maintaining and improving the measures.
  1. Start with decisions. Identify the business questions, users, and decisions that measurement needs to support.
  2. Assess readiness. Review definitions, sources, availability, and quality for a focused set of measures.
  3. Build the working view. Agree on a concise scorecard, responsibilities, and the improvements needed to support it.
  4. Put it into practice. Coach the team through review meetings and refine the measures as they are used.

Set around the priority decisions, data access, and level of improvement required.

Quotation mark

Demand Metric have been a great partner in helping us to retool our growth engine.

In addition to their useful templates, I have worked closely with them to conduct workshops, develop custom documents, provide coaching and other essential tasks and I have been extremely pleased with the results. Their service level is top-notch and they really commit as a business partner to help you improve. I highly recommend them.
Ron Denoo
Senior Director Market Strategy Development - Global

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Meet the coaches and experts behind the work.

Our coaches and experts bring experience in commercial growth, research, marketing, and team resilience. We shape the team around your priorities and agree the right support for your project.

Kurt Friedmann

Kurt Friedmann

Growth Coach

Kurt designed and implemented sales and customer service training programs as a partner at Impact Learning Systems. He later led Mentored Pathways as CEO and has served as an advisor, investor, mentor, and coach to more than 700 companies.

John Follett

John Follett

Co-Founder | Demand Metric

John is the architect of the INSIGHTS™ Framework. His research has helped brands engage buyers, establish thought leadership, and build pipeline, with work for Salesforce, Adobe Marketo Engage, HubSpot, Smartsheet, and more than 100 other companies.

Jesse Hopps

Jesse Hopps

Founder | Commercial Excellence Consortium

Creator of the Mindset, Skillset, Toolset framework and Founder of Demand Metric, Jesse helps B2B teams turn strategy into practical capabilities. His consulting experience includes work with Microsoft, Mitsubishi, and Esri. His focus is helping leaders clarify priorities, put practical tools to use, and develop their teams’ ability to apply new approaches to real business challenges.

Ron Denoo

Ron Denoo

Growth Coach | Commercial Strategy

Ron brings commercial leadership experience from Mitsubishi Chemical Group, with a background spanning innovation, market strategy, and business leadership. As a Growth Coach, he helps teams work through live opportunities using practical tools, objective advice, and mentorship that supports better decisions and action.

Jerry Rackley

Jerry Rackley

Marketing Research & Analytics

Jerry combines four decades of sales and marketing experience with research, consulting, and teaching at Oklahoma State University. The author of Marketing Analytics Roadmap and a former Demand Metric Chief Analyst, he brings expertise in marketing strategy, customer understanding, content, and analytics.

Dr. Paul Stoltz

Dr. Paul Stoltz

Growth Coach | Resilience & AQ®

Founder and CEO of PEAK Learning and originator of Adversity Quotient®, Paul focuses on the science of resilience. His work on AQ and GRIT helps leaders respond constructively to change, strengthen adaptability, and build the mindset to keep progressing through difficult challenges.

Make this Growth Project™ your own.

Tell us about your priorities, team, and timing. We’ll shape a practical engagement around the progress you need to make.