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.

This research paper explains how the heightened expectations of the Millennial Generation will influence workplace practices from hiring, recruiting and retention, to compensation, promotion, training and organizational culture. The paper also identifies a short list of actions that will help any company prepare for a future in which Millennials will play a major role.

The global financial crisis offers executives in the Middle East "a tremendous opportunity to drive change more effectively than in the good times, so that businesses are well-positioned for the future," writes Kristina Rogers, a leader of Monitor's Middle East and North Africa practice, in Emirates Business 24-7 based in the United Arab Emirates. Rogers explains how businesses can navigate these uncertain times "by incorporating uncertainty into business strategies and exploring a range of potential future scenarios to uncover new opportunities."

Taking Advantage of Tumultuous Times, a series of articles and narrated slideshows from Monitor, offers insights into critical issues organizations face—from corporate strategy to adaptive cost cutting—during this unprecedented period of economic uncertainty and disruption challenging industries across the globe. This article explains how to use strategic pricing strategies to survive a difficult economy and emerge from it stronger and more competitive.

To explore creatively the nature of work in the 21st century, we must challenge many of our deeply held assumptions, beliefs and perspectives. In this article from People & Strategy, Eamonn Kelly, a Monitor partner and the firm's global head of thought leadership and networking, argues that there are six fundamental shifts in mindset leaders have to make about work in order to be competitive at the corporate and national levels.

Nearly half of the world lives on less than $2 a day. The persistence of massive global poverty cries out for new approaches to improving the lives of people living at the base of the income pyramid. Monitor Group released this first-of-its-kind report based on comparative research in 20 countries that explores financially sustainable and scalable enterprises that succeed in low-income markets and highlights their promise to accelerate genuine social change.

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.

Cloud computing is one avenue for the U.S. to reassert global economic and technology leadership--if government policy makers safeguard its future as the basis for a flourishing new technology sector. In this paper, Andrew Heyward and Jeffrey F. Rayport outline eight elements for enabling this on-demand computing industry to realize its full potential.

In this rapid tour of history, Eamonn Kelly, a Monitor partner and global head of thought leadership and networking, describes how many of today’s major political, social, and economic issues are rooted in perceptions of history which shape our assumptions about the world’s future.

Our current tumultuous times find a deep, systemic banking and financial crisis layered atop fundamental, structural shifts—in demography, technology, geopolitics and the environment—that will lead to increasing discontinuities in the global economy.  After the inevitable business cycle recovery, we will find ourselves adapting to a new and very different economic order—one that demands different strategies, relationships, and capabilities for corporations and their leaders.  In this webcast, Monitor thought leaders Joe Fuller, Katherine Fulton, Eamonn Kelly and Steve Weber discuss both the challenges and opportunities facing business leaders today.