Monitor 360 helps governments, NGOs, and corporations address complex geo-strategic issues. The firm’s unique multi-disciplinary approach leverages insights from the public and private sectors to develop innovative solutions to highly complex problems. We institutionalize solutions for clients through a variety of approaches, including state-of-the-art training programs, workshops, and innovative capability development programs.

We identify and synthesize insights and methods from diverse networks to deliver unique, effective, actionable analyses. Our engagement model enables clients to think and act with greater effectiveness. We help clients:

Develop foresight-based plans and strategy. We offer long-range strategic planning using unique methodologies that combine scenario thinking with crowd-sourcing and decision-making processes. We help our clients position themselves for the future by articulating the possible scenarios they may face. And we help them realign their strategies to take advantage of opportunities and mitigate risks.

Identify emerging issues. We analyze and monitor social, technical, economic, environmental, and political issues that influence our clients. We institutionalize emerging issues programs so that our clients minimize strategic surprises.

Conduct alternative analysis. We provide action-oriented quantitative and qualitative studies to address questions that cannot be answered conventionally. We provide clients with creative solutions to their hardest problems by synthesizing the most powerful insights and approaches from industry and academia.

Develop actionable strategic communications. We employ proprietary methods and customized networks to develop a deep understanding of target audiences, including their beliefs, mindsets, and master narratives, so that communicators can understand which messages will resonate and why.

Define research agendas and innovation portfolios. We apply proven methodologies, such as research focus assessments, and technology and innovation futures scenarios, to help clients prioritize the highest value target areas for R&D. We provide innovation options in complex scientific or technological domains that intersect with global social, environmental, economic and political trends. Examples of such domains are smart electricity grids, intelligent infrastructure, and climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Create innovative methodologies. We leverage best practices from diverse topical domains to design custom methodologies for addressing ongoing analytic challenges. We provide clients with the tools required to use these methodologies on a repeatable basis.

Develop skills and capabilities. We develop highly customized, interactive, and experiential training and capability development programs for governments and executives around the world. Our programs cover cutting-edge topics such as foresight methods, communication strategies, analytic framing, and research methodology design.

Create custom expertise networks. We reach out to our global network of creative thinkers from a broad range of fields—including academia, business, politics, science, technology, security, and the arts—to help clients access relevant perspectives. We help our clients build sustained networks that support their analytic needs.