We use metrics as standards against which to judge individual projects, employee teams, and entire companies. This site helps you judge the metrics themselves. To do so--i.e., to say "what's wrong with it"--depends on how the metric is used. Companies use metrics for many things, but all of them come down to three basic purposes:

In this program, we are concerned about metrics that are proxies for value for the whole company. These would be the high-level results that owners ultimately care about, to which they are likely to tie management rewards via their variable compensation plans, and that management would ultimately feed back into everything else it is doing.

So, in looking at your company performance, how well does your favorite metric stack up?