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.

In this report, Monitor Institute’s Katherine Fulton, Gabriel Kasper and Barbara Kibbe discuss the future of philanthropic innovation. The next decade will call on successful institutions to develop “next practices”—effective approaches that are well-suited to the emerging landscape of public problem solving—that allow them to act bigger and adapt better.

The Monitor Institute, the social change division of the Monitor Group, today released a case study examining how KaBOOM! innovated its approach to scale by putting its model online for others to copy. KaBOOM! is a national non-profit organization dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.

The case study, entitled Breaking New Ground: Using the Internet to Scale: A Case History of KaBOOM!, commissioned by KaBOOM!, looks at the organization's challenges and lessons learned while pioneering an online strategy to scale their program model. Instead of replicating a traditional non-profit approach to organizational growth, KaBOOM! is using the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize to build their own playgrounds using free resources and guidelines on the KaBOOM! website. While the idea of giving away a non-profit model itself isn't new, KaBOOM! is one of the first non-profit organizations to take this approach online.

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 this webcast presentation, experts from Monitor share specific insights gained from 25 years of experience helping executives lead major transformations in their organizations. Experts explain the critical enablers of successful transformation and the barriers that every leader must anticipate and confront. And they will explain why speed is essential to execute bold new ideas that create lasting impact.

A business environment in which carbon emissions carry new costs creates a different competitive context. To succeed in this new environment, companies must reevaluate their core strategic choices, rethink their critical sources of competitive advantage and invest in new capabilities.

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.

A report from the Center for American Progress, the Asia Society, Monitor Group and Dr. S. Julio Friedmann from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, provides a framework for the United States and China to develop carbon capture and sequestration technologies to curb pollution and create new jobs.

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.