Innovation

Innovation is a growing business imperative. Monitor addresses a broad range of innovation issues—from invention to realization and commercialization. We operate at the intersection of business strategy, technology, and innovation to help our clients maximize the return from their technology and research and development investments, and increase the success of their venturing and commercialization initiatives.

Facing the Future Water Challenge

Rodrigo Guzman, Kim Eckermann and Steve Danino June 28, 2010 Article

To address the issue of integrated water resource management for Morocco, Monitor Group has worked with the country’s Ministry of Water to develop and implement a national water strategy. Monitor’s approach and key findings were recently presented at the 2010 International Water Week in Singapore.

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The Psychology of Innovation

Pedro Arboleda June 6, 2010 Article

Pedro Arboleda, a partner at Monitor, writes in the ABC newspaper of Madrid, that commercially-effective innovation requires a clear alignment of interests among people critical to the innovation process—scientists, entrepreneurs, financiers, managers, and even politicians—all of whom provide the necessary ingredients for the special innovation “sauce” to have a viable life in the marketplace.

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Breaking New Ground: Using the Internet to Scale

Heather McLeod Grant and Katherine Fulton June 2, 2010 Article

The Monitor Institute, the social change division of the Monitor Group, published a case study examining how KaBOOM!, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building playgrounds in the United States, innovated its approach to scale by putting its model online for others to copy. Instead of replicating a traditional nonprofit approach to organizational growth, KaBOOM! is using the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize to build their own playgrounds using free resources and guidelines on the KaBOOM! website.

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How Innovation Really Works

Nikhil Prasad Ojha, Parijat Ghosh, Sarah Stein Greenberg, Anurag Mishra, with staff of Business Today Magazine May 30, 2010 Article

In this article, “How Innovation Really Works,” experts from Monitor produced a special research report with Business Today to explore how Monitor’s Ten Types of Innovation™ framework applies to growing, innovative companies in India.

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Open Innovation in Arab Family Businesses: A Must or an Oxymoron?

Kristina Rogers, Dr. Steffen Gackstatter, Ramia El Agamy, MSc April 29, 2010 Article

In the lead article of Tharawat magazine’s 6th volume, Monitor's Kristina Rogers and Dr. Steffen Gackstatter explore the applicability of the Open Innovation concept to the Arab family business construct.

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Road to a Winning Therapeutic Area Strategy: How Innovations in Disruptive Technologies Will Enable Competitive Advantage

Adam Greenberg and Romney L. Resney April 27, 2010 Article

In this article, Adam Greenberg and Romney Resney outline how biopharma executives can respond to intense market pressures and changing business dynamics by redefining their therapeutic area strategies to include a mixture of approaches: diagnostics to identify promising treatments; drug delivery technologies to differentiate offerings; and remote patient monitoring technologies.

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How to Set an Innovation Agenda

Bansi Nagji and Brian Quinn April 12, 2010 Article

In this feature article "Shotgun Blues" from The Conference Board Review, Monitor's Bansi Nagji and Brian Quinn explain how corporate leaders can set a course to innovate in their organizations and industries to unlock value and create new opportunities for growth.

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Webinar - Sustainability: Successful Strategies for ‘The New Normal'

Bob Lurie, Eamonn Kelly and Dan Esty November 6, 2009 Article Sustainability is no longer a buzzword or optional consideration for companies—it has become a pressing issue and a vital part of achieving competitive advantage. In these video highlights from the webinar, “Sustainability: Successful Strategies for ‘The New Normal,’” Monitor’s Bob Lurie and Eamonn Kelly, along with Dan Esty, chairman of Esty Environmental Partners, discuss the best approaches to corporate sustainability initiatives.

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Sustainability: Successful Strategies for 'The New Normal,' a Webcast Presentation

November 6, 2009 Article

Monitor, working in close partnership with Esty Environmental Partners, has developed a unique and integrated approach to analyzing, formulating, and executing successful sustainability strategies that are tailored to our clients' unique contexts, capabilities, and aspirations. In this webcast, Monitor's Eamonn Kelly and Bob Lurie along with Dan Esty, explain how sustainability can be a core part of future success.

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A Roadmap for U.S.–China Collaboration on Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Center for American Progress, Asia Society, Monitor Group and Dr. S. Julio Friedmann November 4, 2009 Article

A report from the Center for American Progress, the Asia Society, Monitor Group and Dr. S. Julio Friedmann from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, provides a framework for the United States and China to develop carbon capture and sequestration technologies to curb pollution and create new jobs.

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