Overview of Institute for Real Growth (IRG)
The Institute for Real Growth (IRG) is the most comprehensive study on business growth ever.
It is the first time that WPP, orchestrated by Kantar, brings a thought leadership initiative to market with the goal of engaging clients on what it takes to deliver sustained business growth.
What Drives Business Growth Today?
The Institute for Real Growth features interviews from over 550 senior leaders across all industries and results from 1,500 respondents across 73 markets to identify growth opportunities that shape the building blocks of growth.



The Seven Building Blocks of Real Growth
Companies achieving Real Growth – sustained top-line performance – have embraced a new architecture.
The Architecture for Real Growth:
- Is human-centric
- Recognises and addresses all stakeholders’ needs
- Future-proofs organisations by uniting creativity, technology & data
- Delivers ever-evolving experiences.
From this architecture, we have identified seven building blocks which companies must embrace to achieve growth:

Institute for Real Growth Partnership
The Institute for Real Growth is orchestrated by the team that led Marketing2020 and Insight2020 – in partnership with multiple marketing and advertising associations around the world, Spencer Stuart, WARC, WPP, leading academic and practitioner experts, and industry organizations and publications worldwide.










IRG Advisory Board
To build an industry-leading program on growth, The Institute for Real Growth (IRG) is supported by a global Advisory board with leaders from the world’s biggest and most influential brands and organizations. Advisory Board members are:

Carolyn Everson
VP, Global Marketing Solutions

Bob Liodice
CEO
ANA

Antonio Lucio
CMO
HP/Facebook

Lindsay Pattison
Chief Transformation
WPP

Penry Price
Vice President, Marketing Solutions

Peter Ter Kulve
Chief Growth Officer
Unilever

Lorraine Twohill
CMO

Meredith Verdone
CMO
Bank of America

Yoram Wind
Emeritus
Professor
Wharton

Di-Ann Eisnor
Director of Growth
Waze

Shiv Shivakumar
GE President for Strategy & Business Development
Aditya Birla Group

Enzo Scarcella
COO
MTN

Cindy Wang
CMO
UXIN

Frank Cooper
CMO
BlackRock

Roel de Vries
CMO
Nissan
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