You delivered. Who owns market recognition?

Published October 11, 2026

Companies devote substantial management attention to creating industrial value. The process through which that value becomes understood and recognized by capital markets deserves comparable discipline.

Creating value and earning market recognition are connected, but distinct, management tasks.

IRG—Influence, Relevance, Growth—combines three decades of top-management consulting with insights from at least seven established research traditions. It provides one score, one estimate of potentially unrecognized value, and one action programme.

This integration helped lay the foundation for the IRG CEO Monitor, a joint research and intelligence initiative with SDA Bocconi School of Management’s Business & Government Lab.

The outputs are straightforward; the discipline behind them deserves explanation. This three-part series examines its purpose, evidence, and application. The final article invites interested executives to request an initial Recognition Brief.