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Sustained profitability is the bottom-line for every business, and key to achieving it is the ability to respond strategically to competition. In his Harvard Business Review article, Monitor founder Michael E. Porter details five competitive forces that influence profitability.

The antithesis of a traditional business model, biotechnology company Maxygen is the poster child for a new “biomolecular” way of organizing enterprise. Monitor’s Chris Meyer and Joan Chu analyze Maxygen’s paradigm – and question its sustainability – in their The Journal of Life Sciences article.

Scenario Thinking for Business Executives and Corporate Boards.

Today’s buying process is a constantly changing ecosystem of multiple channels, greater competition and progressively empowered consumers. In their Marketing Management article, Monitor’s Mark Pocharski and Sheryl Jacobson help marketers develop the tools necessary to navigate the increasingly complex minds of consumers.

Businesses increasingly realize that significant growth opportunities are unlikely to come from incremental change.

Learning what, when and where it's needed.

A framework for helping nonprofits and foundations to think about how they capture, organize, and share knowledge, along with a sampling of the knowledge management tools, options, and approaches that are now available.

The Office of the Governor of the State of California and representatives from Life Sciences clusters produced strategic action plans.

Today's executives need to integrate their "risk management" and "risk-taking" sides.