This report from Monitor's Global Business Network and Cisco examines the driving forces and uncertainties that will shape the Internet's future. The scenarios suggest how a range of critical factors such as net neutrality policies, infrastructure investments and consumer response to pricing models could influence the Internet's potential to advance global prosperity, business productivity, education and social interaction.

Good quality, affordable housing is an area of great unmet need in urban India, with the potential to impact more than 20 million households. In 2006, Monitor Inclusive Markets started working to catalyze this market, believing it to be a space where a market-based solution was not only viable, but could drive significant social impact at scale. A product of this work is Monitor’s “State of the Market” study commissioned by India’s National Housing Bank.

For prospective homeowners in India’s low-income bracket, the options for securing financing have traditionally been slim. But thanks to a growing number of housing finance companies that focus on low-income, informal sector customers, many people are getting a second chance at a loan, writes Monitor senior manager Nishant Lalwani in an article for the leading Indian business magazine Business Today.

The world’s rapidly growing megacities represent significant opportunities for companies seeking new markets and justify a unique approach to an important source of potential growth. In this article, Jennifer Lacks Kaplan and Mark Pocharski explain what it takes for companies to build winning strategies to take advantage of this growth opportunity.

In this article in Parameters, the U.S. Army's senior professional journal, Craig Denny and Aaron Harms of Monitor and Martin Gurri of the National Intelligence Open Source Center, provide new ways for strategic communicators to dissect persuasive visual media, understand the human terrain of foreign audiences, and assess which messages resonate and why. 

In this article, “How Innovation Really Works,” experts from Monitor produced a special research report with Business Today to explore how Monitor’s Ten Types of Innovation™ framework applies to growing, innovative companies in India.

Monitor Institute researchers Diana Scearce, Gabriel Kasper and Heather McLeod Grant write in Stanford Social Innovation Review that "working wikily," a leadership style characterized by greater openness, transparency, decentralized decision making, and collective action, can lead to greater social impact for nonprofits.

In a new report tracking sovereign wealth fund investments, Monitor Group and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei found that the funds had adapted to the global economic downturn by realigning investment strategies with long-term goals and pursuing joint investments to share risk.

In this feature article "Shotgun Blues" from The Conference Board Review, Monitor's Bansi Nagji and Brian Quinn explain how corporate leaders can set a course to innovate in their organizations and industries to unlock value and create new opportunities for growth.