The future of China's consumer economy will depend on how consumers lives evolve in the future. This paper examines aspects of consumers' lives -- where they will live, how societal changes will impact their families, their choices and behavior -- to examine questions about the future of the Chinese consumer landscape.

The latest in Monitor's series of quarterly reports on the behavior of sovereign wealth funds investments found the number and value of transactions for the third quarter of 2009 had risen significantly.

In this Harvard Business Review cover article, Robert H. Miles, a senior adviser to Monitor, outlines six organizational problems which can slow corporate change, and explains how to attack them sequentially.

Companies need to look beyond their walls to compete in these tumultuous times. Open innovation can help businesses more reliably discover new ideas, but they need discipline to pursue the right opportunities with the right approaches. Read more and see other articles in our series.

In this video Eamonn Kelly outlines four key discontinuities driving global change and identifies how leaders can take action to gain competitive advantage. It is part of a special series explaining how leaders can seize opportunities during tumultuous times.

Sovereign wealth funds remained cautious in the second quarter, but were preparing to increase their activity in the third quarter, an analysis by Monitor and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. This report is the latest in a series tracking SWF behavior trends.

Controlling costs has become a necessity for every business in these difficult and uncertain times. But taking costs out of an organization carries significant risks as well as opportunities. How companies approach cost reductions now will help determine their financial health and competitive position when the recovery takes hold.

In this paper, Monitor's Josh Lee and Karin Stawarky discuss how adaptive cost management empowers business leaders to focus spending decisions on strategy and growth.

Over the past year, the use of social media tools has become increasingly mainstream, interest in both networks and leading with a network mindset has mushroomed (driven in part by the success of the 2008 Obama campaign), and the tools themselves have continued to mature. This paper, an updated version of a 2008 article, is an effort to update and share our learning to date.

Monitor Group and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), a leading international research center based in Milan, Italy, released Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment  Behavior: Analysis of Sovereign Wealth Fund Transactions during Q1 2009, a new quarterly report analyzing the effects of the global recession on behaviors and financial transactions of sovereign wealth funds.