This
framework considers the Chairman and CEO's self - assessment of performance against commitments in the year, both qualitative and quantitative, and also considers progress against strategic objectives, an
analysis of IBM's total performance over a multi-year period, a
competitive benchmark
analysis, and other relevant information.
It seems that the definition of «consensus» varies by field, just as the decision - making
framework does, with unanimity or near unanimity expected from the scientific community, even including those scientists who in many cases have not really embedded themselves in the literature nor been required to put together a coherent assembly and
analysis of scientific knowledge (and even including, somehow, CEI's [
Competitive Enterprise Institute] lawyers with their ExxonMobil support, who are often quoted as the contrary view in papers on the science of climate change).