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.

Monitor Group, one of the world’s leading advisory and consulting firms, and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, a leading international research center, based in Milan, Italy, released, “Weathering the Storm: Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Global Economic Crisis of 2008,” a new annual report analyzing the effects of the global economic crisis on the behaviors and financial transactions of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs).

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.

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.

Facing a sharp economic downturn and fundamental shifts in the way buyers learn and make decisions, companies must adapt their mix of marketing expenditures and develop new models for customer engagement. These new models, informed by insight into how customers think and behave, welcome shoppers’ involvement in shaping when, where and how they receive information and how they interact with products and brands.

In this essay for The American Scholar Magazine, Monitor co-founder Joseph Fuller argues that Wall Street's use of computer-based models worsened the current financial crisis and recommends ways to make financial firms more responsible for managing the risk these models introduce.

Corporate leaders coping with the current recession have to deal with forces that their predecessors in past recessions did not confront, explains Eamonn Kelly a partner and global head of thought leadership and networking at Monitor Group. In this six-minute video excerpt from a recent executive briefing, Kelly cites four disruptive forces leaders must confront as they grapple with the recession and prepare for the long term: the rise of a global economy not centered in the West; the blurring of boundaries among the commercial, government and non-government sectors; the significance of sustainability as a business issue requiring action; and the transformative impact of new connective technologies.

Increasing sensitivity to environmental issues among customers and channel partners, as well as a changing regulatory landscape, has caught many executives off guard. This report examines the myriad of topics surrounding Sustainability and shows CEOs how to execute a Sustainability strategy that can better the environment—and the bottom line.