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Studies, playbooks, reports, articles, and practical frameworks from the Institute for Real Growth.

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Framework

Playing Chess and Checkers at the Same Time

A session on running multiple business models at once, and on the two tools marketing can use to have that conversation with finance: the business model canvas and
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Playbook

Planning and Stakeholder Engagement

The session that pairs a change management model with an influencing toolkit, then asks each participant to pitch their most important stakeholder in 45 seconds.
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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.
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Report

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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Report

A Blueprint for the Overstretched CEO

The campaign deck for IRG's Impact Study launch, carrying the statistics, poll questions and study scale used to introduce it.
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Report

The IRG Impact Study

The public description of the Impact Study: what it set out to find, who took part, and where its findings were presented.
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Study

The Impact Study, and What It Set Out to Answer

IRG and Oxford's Future of Marketing Initiative report the first C-suite study of what it takes to win in the shift from shareholder to stakeholder growth.