In this report, Monitor Institute’s Katherine Fulton, Gabriel Kasper and Barbara Kibbe discuss the future of philanthropic innovation. The next decade will call on successful institutions to develop “next practices”—effective approaches that are well-suited to the emerging landscape of public problem solving—that allow them to act bigger and adapt better.

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.

Monitor Institute researchers Diana Scearce, Gabriel Kasper and Heather McLeod Grant write in Stanford Social Innovation Review that "working wikily," a leadership style characterized by greater openness, transparency, decentralized decision making, and collective action, can lead to greater social impact for nonprofits.

This article, based on practical experience with all types of organizations and Monitor's recent research looking specifically at large bureaucracies, sheds light on the drivers of and barriers to high performance, deriving a set of actionable improvement imperatives without which significant change cannot occur.

In this webcast presentation, experts from Monitor share specific insights gained from 25 years of experience helping executives lead major transformations in their organizations. Experts explain the critical enablers of successful transformation and the barriers that every leader must anticipate and confront. And they will explain why speed is essential to execute bold new ideas that create lasting impact.

In these video highlights from the Accelerating Corporate Transformations webcast presentation, experts from Monitor share specific insights gained from 25 years of experience helping executives lead major transformations in their organizations. They explain the critical enablers of successful transformation and the barriers that every leader must anticipate and confront, as well as why speed is essential to execute bold new ideas that create lasting impact.

In this Harvard Business Review cover article, Robert H. Miles, a senior adviser to Monitor, outlines six organizational problems which can slow corporate change, and explains how to attack them sequentially.

Controlling costs has become a necessity for every business in these difficult and uncertain times. But taking costs out of an organization carries significant risks as well as opportunities. How companies approach cost reductions now will help determine their financial health and competitive position when the recovery takes hold.

In this paper, Monitor's Josh Lee and Karin Stawarky discuss how adaptive cost management empowers business leaders to focus spending decisions on strategy and growth.

In a panel discussion organized by the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Monitor co-founder Joseph Fuller and other experts talk about ways that pharmaceutical companies can change their business models, financing structures, corporate governance models and incentive systems to build sustainable, profitable futures.

Watch this webcast in which Monitor thought leaders Eamonn Kelly, Josh Lee and Karin E. Stawarky discuss how executives can make the right investment and cost savings choices.