We have designed our firm so it can do two things exceptionally well:

• Create and sustain leading, world-class capabilities in the management disciplines essential to growth
• Be able to bring those capabilities to bear in a pragmatic and customized way for our clients

In order to build leading edge methods and deep expertise in different aspects of growth, we invest heavily internally in specialist business units to drive knowledge development, and we periodically merge with other companies to augment our capabilities.

Monitor's specialist units focus on different aspects of corporate and competitive strategy; commercial strategy – marketing, sales, pricing; innovation; organization; economic development; capability building. These specialist business units bring their expertise to Monitor clients both as part of integrated client service teams and independently.

Below is a partial listing of our specialist business units.

Strategy

All Monitor units are deeply engaged in Strategy and all our work for clients starts from a strategic perspective. All our client service partners are experienced in designing and delivering successful engagements in the areas of corporate and business unit strategy.

We have several specialist business units whose expertise can be applied to support strategy engagements depending on the client's situation.

• Monitor GBN: Scenario planning
• Monitor Institute: Strategy development for non-profit, philanthropic, and social sector organizations to increase their social impact

Marketing and Pricing

• Monitor M2C®: Marketing strategies and marketing capability-building, including Monitor SPG – Strategic Pricing

Innovation

• Monitor Innovation, including
  • Monitor MI: Innovation discipline and capabilities, focusing on technology and R&D strategy
  • Monitor Doblin: Innovation strategy and effectiveness through deep customer insights, operating at the intersection of business and design

Organization and Leadership

• Monitor Leadership and Organization
• Adaptive Overhead: Organizational design and cost management

Economic Development and Security

• Monitor NEDS: National Economic Development and Security
  • Monitor REC: Regional Economic Competitiveness strategies to improve investment decisions, economic competitiveness and security
  • Monitor 360: Helps organizations make sense of complex geo-strategic issues. We serve a variety of clients, including governments, NGOs and corporations.

Capability Building

• Monitor Executive Development: learning interventions
• Monitor Talent: a network of external talent who are prominent thought leaders in their fields, with provocative ideas about the future of business, science and society.
  

Capital

• Monitor MAST: Advisory services on strategic transactions such as alliances and acquisitions