Government

Monitor works with national and regional governments around the world on issues of strategic importance, including establishing the vision and strategy for economic development, fostering productive partnerships among government and private constituencies, and building coalitions for growth.

Monitor’s High-Performance Bureaucracy™ Practice addresses the range of challenges faced by large public sector organizations as they seek to improve their performance.

We also address issues related to globalization, competition in emerging economies, and national security. Much of our economic development work focuses on defining clusters in which an economy can develop world-class competitiveness, and then working with a coalition of public and private constituencies to implement the chosen strategy for the cluster.

Using Stories for Advantage: the Art and Process of Narrative

Doug Randall and Aaron Harms January 23, 2012 Article

“Effective stories that win both listeners’ hearts and minds are critical communications tools that can enable leaders to achieve difficult strategic goals,” write Doug Randall and Aaron Harms in an article in Strategy & Leadership magazine. The onus is on leaders—not their audience—to deliver a successful narrative that transfers meaning and motivation. The authors warn executives that their strategy initiatives are at risk every time the message they deliver is not convincing or clear.

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Scenario Thinking Applied to the Global Economic Outlook

Peter Schwartz, Jonathan Star, Nikhil Prasad Ojha December 31, 2011 Article

The global economy faces serious risks of a second “great recession” if world leaders fail to cooperate on solutions to prevent “near-term economic divisions to devolve into deeper-seated geopolitical divisions,” write Peter Schwartz, Jonathan Star, and Nikhil Prasad Ojha in The Times of India newspaper. In this piece that demonstrates scenario thinking, the authors project the global economy is likely to go through a near-term period of low growth. The long-term prognosis then depends on the actions—or failures—of leaders to respond.

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Global Competitiveness and the Cambodian Rice Industry

Chris Malone November 16, 2011 Video

In a discussion with the “Cambodia’s Global Dialogue,” a public affairs program on the Southeast Asia TV (SEATV) channel in Cambodia, Chris Malone, a senior partner at Monitor, explains the how the firm helps governments and industries around the world assess and improve their regional and global economic competitiveness.

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Winners and Losers in the New Commodity Price Regime

Peter Schwartz, et al. July 11, 2011 Article

This white paper by experts from Monitor and Global Business Network (GBN) analyzes the impact that deep structural shifts in commodities markets will have on the competitive landscape, including the critical supply chain and business location decisions C-level executives will face as higher prices for food, fuel and minerals become permanent.

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Rockefeller Foundation to Foster Impact Sourcing in Africa: Poverty Reduction through ICT Jobs

Monitor and Rockefeller Foundation June 17, 2011 Article

A new report funded by the Rockefeller Foundation estimates that the field of Impact Sourcing, employing socioeconomically disadvantaged people in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) centers, is currently $4.5 billion and has the potential to reach $20 billion and employ 780,000 by 2015. The report, conducted by Monitor Group, suggests a strong business case for Impact Sourcing, which can provide high-quality, reliable services at prices that are at least competitive with traditional BPO centers and, in some cases, almost 40 percent lower than what traditional providers can offer.

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Actually Doing More with Less: Avoiding the Traps of Traditional Budget-Cutting

Bruce Chew, Josh Lee and Jessica Watson June 16, 2011 Article

Agencies and departments at all levels of government are facing increased pressure to cut costs and become more efficient. In this article, leaders of Monitor’s High-Performance Bureaucracy® practice explain how to avoid the traps of traditional budget-cutting, and outline the three keys to “doing more with less.”

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Braving the New World: Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment in the Uncertain Times of 2010

Monitor Group June 7, 2011 Article

In this year’s sovereign wealth fund (SWF) report, Monitor found that 2010 marks the beginning of a new pattern of SWF investment, characterized by an increased number of smaller investments and a focus on financial services and commodities sectors. 

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Scenarios for the Future of Cyber Security

Peter Schwartz May 31, 2011 Article

In the Center for a New American Security’s recent report, “America’s Cyber Future: Security and Prosperity in the Information Age,” Peter Schwartz of Monitor’s Global Business Network (GBN) outlines potential scenarios for the future of cyber security—ranging from openness and security to continual attacks and conflict.

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Deviant Globalization: A Fundamentally New Challenge to U.S. National Security

Nils Gilman, Jesse Goldhammer and Steve Weber Book

In this book, Monitor's thought leaders argue that deviant globalization—the leverage of globalization’s technical platforms to distribute goods and services that violate Western norms and values—is growing rapidly, thanks to a rising demand for illicit goods and services in wealthy countries and deviant actors' ability to profit by arbitraging differences in cultural and moral beliefs.

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Innovation as a State of Mind

Pedro Arboleda April 27, 2011 Article

High-impact entrepreneurship and innovation are actually a state of mind, explains Monitor partner Pedro Arboleda in this article for the Spanish newspaper Cotizalia. He explains that innovation and entrepreneurship can only thrive when both the individual and his or her society are tolerant of risk and failure.

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