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Business / strategy

a factor that causes or strongly influences the level of a cost or outcome, the lever for changing it.

A factor that causes or strongly influences the level of a cost or an outcome, the thing you change in order to change the result. Foster and Gupta analysed manufacturing overhead in 1990 and found that volume alone explains overhead poorly, while transaction and complexity drivers, such as the number of setups or distinct parts, account for far more. In activity-based costing a cost driver is the activity that consumes resources; in strategy the same word names a value driver or a driver of growth. The referent is a causal factor attached to an outcome, and what marks it is influence, not code and not a person. This is the meaning that collides hardest with the computing one: a cost driver drives a number, a device driver drives a device.[1]

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A causal factor influencing a cost or outcome
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Estimated by regressing a cost or outcome on candidate drivers, as in cost-driver and value-driver analysis

Cancer genomics

a mutation that gives a cancer cell a growth advantage and is selected during tumour evolution, as opposed to a passenger mutation.

In cancer genomics, driver refers to a mutation that gives a cancer cell a growth advantage and is selected during tumour evolution, as opposed to a passenger mutation. This meaning comes from Stratton (2009) in Nature.[2]

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References

  1. Foster, G., & Gupta, M. (1990). Manufacturing overhead cost driver analysis. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 12(1-3), 309–337. https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-4101(90)90052-6
  2. Stratton, M. R., Campbell, P. J., & Futreal, P. A. (2009). The cancer genome. Nature, 458(7239), 719-724. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07943

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