Companies have created unprecedented wealth, designed sophisticated technology and intensive global value chains, largely monopolizing the pool of available talents. The public sector, in contrast, has remained at the margins of these processes, understanding and know-how, and with limited talents. Cold-called in when crisis erupted, it has revealed itself to be ill-equipped to manage such complex and yet global problems.

There is wide consensus that business is best at generating value for owners, being both an engine of innovation and driving economic prosperity. Nevertheless, companies are still feverishly trying to provide answers to stakeholders by intensifying corporate social responsibility and, as of late, by aiming to be “sustainable”.

While these practices are commendable and should continue, they fall short of providing the leadership and answers highlighted earlier.

Against this background, the IRG provides a holistic, quantitative and measurable methodology to help CEOs and corporations align to the changed societal context and become influential in order to inspire and cooperate with policy makers to ensure concrete answers, better understanding of industrial challenges, opportunities for job creation, and a more inclusive economic growth.

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