Scott Daniels and Michael M. Baltay
June 17, 2009
Article
In their quest for innovation-led growth, executives are apt to approach technology investments with a conservative risk-averse mindset. This paper explains how taking an active approach to technology risk management, using three common portfolio management techniques, can reduce uncertainty and increase a company's opportunity for growth.
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Monitor Talent
March 26, 2009
Article
In these videos, thought leaders from the Monitor Talent Network tell us their thoughts about the future in business, communications, media and technology.
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Doug Randall
March 23, 2009
Article
Why do organizations get blindsided by market transformations that could have been anticipated? This article from Strategy & Leadership guides you through a systematic process for incorporating plausible but challenging future scenarios into your organization’s learning processes, to help mitigate risk and decrease the likelihood of being unprepared for discontinuities.
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Jeffrey F. Rayport and Andrew Heyward
March 20, 2009
Article
Cloud computing is one avenue for the U.S. to reassert global economic and technology leadership--if policymakers safeguard its future as the basis for a flourishing new technology sector. This paper outlines eight elements to enable on-demand computing to realize its potential.
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Kheehong Song and Allison Cui
January 27, 2009
Article
Gone are the days when companies looked at China as a monolithic land of 1 billion potential customers. Companies are now focusing on how to capture small segments of China’s giant market, and none of these segments is as attractive or as full of potential as the country’s rapidly growing—and multifaceted—middle class.
In this article from The China Business Review, Monitor Group's Kheehong Song and Allison Cui use Monitor's experience to explain how companies can succeed in the Chinese marketplace by analyzing and targeting the right segments of China’s diverse and rapidly emerging middle class.
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Monitor Regional Competitiveness Group
January 15, 2009
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“Paths to Prosperity; Promoting Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century,” a new Monitor Group study, interviewed entrepreneurs in 22 countries to determine attitudes and critical policies required for entrepreneurship to thrive in different regions around the world, including the importance of a society's fostering of entrepreneurial skills and tax policies that encourage R&D.
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Michael Armstrong and Jonathan Joffe
January 14, 2009
Article
Monitor's research suggests that while the financial meltdown claimed a number of hedge funds, those funds with activist strategies are worth watching. This report, by Michael Armstrong and Jonathan Joffe from Monitor's Integrated Strategy and Finance practice, describes typical behaviors of shareholder activists and how CEOs and boards of directors can deal with them.
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Monitor Group
November 25, 2008
Article
These are unprecedented times for corporate executives—incredible volatility in the markets, sinking consumer confidence, a new financial crisis every week. As a result, executives need to act quickly to tackle short term problems while setting the stage for long term growth. While we’ve dealt with recession before, the level of volatility and structural change posed by this crisis calls for a radically different playbook of options for achieving growth.
In our view, there are certain, key levers companies can pull to find real growth and address the uncertainty. The topics covered here can help shape your leadership agenda.
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Geoff Tuff
November 17, 2008
Article
In today’s increasingly volatile economy, companies that make informed technology decisions can gain a significant edge over their competition without spending more on technology to do so. This paper examines the forces that have prevented some companies from unlocking the strategic potential of their technology assets and highlights the tools top-performing companies have employed to drive growth.
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Jennifer Lacks Kaplan and Yakir Siegal
October 31, 2008
Article
Once at the mercy of marketers, customers have developed coping mechanisms to combat the torrent of messages that come their way. Companies need to move past traditional approaches to get their attention.
In this Conference Board article Jennifer Lacks Kaplan and Yakir Siegel, both partners at Monitor Group, discuss five principles that can help companies better focus marketing investment decisions in a challenging world of new technologies and delivery channels.
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