This report from Monitor's Global Business Network and Cisco examines the driving forces and uncertainties that will shape the Internet's future. The scenarios suggest how a range of critical factors such as net neutrality policies, infrastructure investments and consumer response to pricing models could influence the Internet's potential to advance global prosperity, business productivity, education and social interaction.

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 world’s rapidly growing megacities represent significant opportunities for companies seeking new markets and justify a unique approach to an important source of potential growth. In this article, Jennifer Lacks Kaplan and Mark Pocharski explain what it takes for companies to build winning strategies to take advantage of this growth opportunity.

In this article in Parameters, the U.S. Army's senior professional journal, Craig Denny and Aaron Harms of Monitor and Martin Gurri of the National Intelligence Open Source Center, provide new ways for strategic communicators to dissect persuasive visual media, understand the human terrain of foreign audiences, and assess which messages resonate and why. 

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.

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.

In this presentation to the Estonian Development Fund, Monitor co-founder Joseph Fuller explains the necessary elements for nations working on a vision for economic development drawing on his experience working with more than 35 countries creating national and regional economic strategies.

This report presents insights from a year-long project undertaken by the Rockefeller Foundation and Global Business Network (GBN) , designed to explore the role of technology in international development through scenario planning, a methodology in which Monitor's GBN is a long-time leader. 

In a new report tracking sovereign wealth fund investments, Monitor Group and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei found that the funds had adapted to the global economic downturn by realigning investment strategies with long-term goals and pursuing joint investments to share risk.