About IRG
Background
We INCREASINGLY live in a world characterized by an imbalance among key democratic constituencies:
Governments
Media
Non-Government Organizations (NGOs)
Corporations
Public impression of competence and influence, and the respect it engenders, has tilted in favor of corporations.
Influence, Relevance, and Growth (IRG) offers CEOs a proven methodology to analyze, reveal, and capture their full market capitalization value, especially the drivers of intangible value that have historically remained locked within operations.
The New CEO Normal:
76%
of CEOs are expected to inform policy on jobs and the economy.
81%
of CEOs are expected to be personally visible when discussing public policy with external stakeholders or work their company has done to benefit society.
56%
of people believe that capitalism today does more harm than good in the world.
Edelman Trust Barometer
IRG is an AI-powered diagnostic and intelligence platform designed to help leaders understand how their company’s intangible value is being seen, understood, and recognized by the market.
10 Things to Know About IRG
IRG measures what markets often miss.
We analyze the publicly observable signals that shape how investors, media, institutions, and stakeholders understand a company’s true value.
We focus on intangible value.
In today’s economy, much of a company’s value is driven by hard-to-measure assets like influence, relevance, reputation, leadership, innovation, and trust.
We use advanced AI semantic analysis.
Our proprietary system evaluates company narratives across public data sources to understand how clearly value is being communicated and recognized.
We assess companies across 10 strategic parameters.
IRG evaluates performance across governance, leadership, financial influence, responsibility, human capital, industry power, innovation, world citizenship, media power, and thought leadership.
We translate complexity into a clear score.
Each company receives an IRG Score from 0–30, making it easier to see where value is transmitting clearly and where it may be discounted.
We identify the specific sources of value leakage.
IRG shows which parameters, content themes, and information channels are helping or hurting market understanding.
We connect communication to market perception.
Our model examines the relationship between corporate narrative, public visibility, stakeholder understanding, and financial perception.
We benchmark companies against relevant peers.
IRG compares companies against industry peers to reveal where they lead, where they lag, and where they have the greatest opportunity to improve.
We help identify value that may be trapped.
IRG helps leaders understand where value has been created operationally but may not yet be fully recognized by external audiences.
We turn insight into action.
IRG is not just a diagnostic. It is a decision-making platform that helps leaders design, test, measure, and scale strategies to improve information symmetry and unlock growth.
Who IRG Helps:
IRG is built for leaders who need to understand how their company’s value is being interpreted by the market — and how to close the gap between value created and value recognized.
For CEOs
IRG helps CEOs understand how their leadership, strategy, and institutional relevance are shaping the way external audiences perceive enterprise value.
For CFOs
IRG helps CFOs identify where market perception may be discounting the value their company has already created — and where better information symmetry can support stronger recognition.
For Investor Relations Leaders
IRG helps IR leaders strengthen the quality, clarity, and consistency of information reaching analysts, investors, and capital allocators.
For Communications Leaders
IRG helps communications leaders move beyond visibility alone, connecting corporate narrative to influence, relevance, trust, and measurable business value.
For Boards and Senior Leadership Teams
IRG helps leadership teams see how the company is performing across the signals that shape reputation, confidence, relevance, and long-term growth.
The 10 Dimensions of IRG:
Traditional Dimensions of Business Success
The foundational dimensions that shape trust, credibility, operational strength, and performance inside the enterprise and across its core sector.
Modern Dimensions of Future Power
The emerging dimensions that shape relevance, influence, adoption, resilience, and broader intangible power beyond traditional business performance alone.
Company Governance
Assesses governance quality, management effectiveness, board fit, organizational structure, and the evaluation systems guiding leadership performance and accountability.
Industry Power
Assesses the Corporation’s ability to influence the terms of debate across domestic, regional, and global arenas beyond its immediate sector.
Industry Leadership
Assesses the company’s standing, influence, and visible impact within its own sector, including how strongly it shapes direction inside the category.
Innovation Excellence
Assesses the role of the company as a credible global innovator and the strength of its reputation for advancing the future of the industry.
Financial Influence
Assesses the financial strength of the enterprise, including signals of stability, performance, resilience, and the power of its economic position.
World Citizenship
Assesses leadership in national and international forums, contribution to wider societal progress, and the company’s value as a sought-after partner.
Social Responsibility / Diversity / Sustainability
Assesses how the organization supports these priorities internally and externally through strategy, policies, commitments, and visible action across stakeholders.
Media Strength
Assesses the ability to communicate opportunities, risks, and industry vision clearly while engaging stakeholders and decision makers around AI and growth.
Human Capital
Measures employer attractiveness, talent development, workforce readiness, and the company’s ability to attract and prepare people in an AI-shaped future.
Thought Leadership
Assesses the company’s ability to contribute meaningful best practices and perspectives, and to ensure external stakeholders recognize that leadership.
Strong business. Discounted story.
Find the dimensions suppressing value.
IRG helps CEOs identify which dimensions are holding back recognition and valuation — often media power, thought leadership, or industry power.
Innovation is real. Adoption is fragile.
See whether innovation is truly landing.
IRG helps CEOs assess whether real innovation is being understood, defended, and made adoptable by the stakeholders who shape markets.
High scrutiny. Weak narrative.
Move from reactive defense to value protection.
IRG helps CEOs protect enterprise value before the next policy, narrative, or stakeholder shock turns scrutiny into strategic drag.
Key Scenarios IRG Helps CEOs Address:
TEAM
IRG brings together expertise across corporate strategy, capital markets, communications, artificial intelligence, institutional leadership, and academic research. Our work is designed to help companies understand how value is created, communicated, interpreted, and recognized in complex stakeholder environments.
Fernando Napolitano
Founder & CEO
Previously: Senior Partner and Managing Director of Booz Allen Hamilton in Italy. Served on the board of ENEL (utility), Media For Europe (Media) and Albany Molecular Research (Pharma).
He is co-author of “Megacommunity” (2008) and ”IRG: How to survive and thrive in a post ESG world” (2023). A former Italy’s National team water polo player, he was European Champion in 1984.
Jeremy Tucker
Director of Communications
Jeremy is a director of strategic brand positioning and communications, and specializes in business-strategy-based corporate brand development, helping organizations architect strategies to grow their brand internally + externally.
Jeremy is an international speaker and author on the future of brand building and brand innovation, and a strategy consulting firm founder.
Jeffrey Libshutz
Senior Advisor
Jeffrey Libshutz has been advising and investing in companies for over 25 years. He is currently Managing Partner of ArmaVir Partners LLC, a private equity firm which makes direct equity investments in small-to-mid-sized operating companies. As part of ArmaVir, he also co-founded Simple Broadband LLC, a telecommunications-focused investment company which is working to expand fiber optic network coverage to underserved regions across the United States.
Jeffrey has a BS in Engineering from Cornell and an MBA from Wharton. Mr. Libshutz is currently a member of the advisory council for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University and a member of the advisory council for the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University.
See What the Market May Be Missing For Your Organization.
IRG helps companies identify where influence, relevance, and growth potential are not yet fully visible to the market. Request an IRG Diagnostic to understand how your company performs across the 10 IRG parameters — and where stronger information symmetry could unlock greater value capture.