A report by the public accounts committee found that a contract for consultants boosted their pay by 27% without any measurable improvement in productivity.

There was no measurable improvement.

Better terminals, namely display devices instead of printers, encouraged the development of better full-screen editors, which had a measurable improvement in productivity and program readability.

The results show no improvement for visual memory but measurable improvement for verbal memory.

Certain aspects of many of the risk management standards have come under criticism for having no measurable improvement on risk, whether the confidence in estimates and decisions seem to increase.