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Report

Left Brain, Right Brain, and the Heart

The Whole-Brained session on rebalancing analytics, creativity and empathy, with a practitioner's account of what AI can already do to advertising and what it costs.
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Playbook

Driving Humanized Growth, Driver by Driver

Marc de Swaan Arons walks through the Impact Study findings and the five drivers, with the companies that got each one right and wrong.
Cover of Culture Is a Script, and Scripts Can Be Rewritten
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Culture Is a Script, and Scripts Can Be Rewritten

The Open Culture session: why culture is not company DNA, what overperformers do differently, and how to give feedback that people can use.
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Framework

Abundance Does Not Always Mean More

The online session on abundant markets: six routes to a wider market definition, what it takes inside the organization, and four companies that grew by deliberately offering less.
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From Shareholder Primacy to Value for All Stakeholders

A preview of the IRG Impact Study for the CMO Collaborative, answering the criticism of the marketing role with data on what separates growth overperformers from everyone else.
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Five Drivers of Humanized Growth, Previewed in Sydney

A preview of the IRG Impact Study for CMOs, setting out the gap between overperformers and underperformers on each driver of humanized growth.
Cover of Impact Study Findings, With the Full Contributor List
Study

Impact Study Findings, With the Full Contributor List

The executive summary of the Impact Study bound together with the 441 contributors whose interviews it rests on.
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Reimagine the Future, Redefine Growth

The Impact Study presented as a four-part method for implementing humanized growth, with the over-performer gap reported on each move.
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Five Drivers of Humanized Growth: The Partner Preview

The executive summary of the Oxford and IRG Impact Study: what separates organizations that create value for all their stakeholders from those that do not.