The Institute is deeply committed to cooperative advantage—the success that comes uniquely from working in concert with others. We believe that transformative change is best achieved when individuals and organizations collaborate and harness resources beyond those of any single entity. 

Therefore, our own strategy depends on partnerships of many kinds.

Our most important partnership is with Monitor itself. As a member company of Monitor, the Institute has access to reservoirs of human, financial, and relationship assets globally, as well as access to a broad and evolving suite of tools for innovating, making strategic choices, and influencing markets and for building individual, organizational, and network capabilities.

Within Monitor, we work especially closely with several units and practices:

Global Business Network (GBN) helps organizations adapt and grow in an increasingly uncertain world. Since 1987, GBN has been a pioneer in evolving and applying scenario planning, drawing upon experiential learning and networks of experts and visionaries to help companies, governments, and nonprofits address emerging challenges and shape the future.

Doblin is a pioneer and leader in innovation strategy. Doblin has more than twenty-five years of experience helping leaders create and implement game-changing innovations and world-class innovation capabilities using proven, repeatable approaches that combine expertise in design, business strategy, and social science.  

Monitor Inclusive Markets works to understand and catalyze market-based solutions for social change in India. It explores, refines, and scales innovative business models that aim to engage the poor either as customers or suppliers.

Outside Monitor, we have a special, longstanding relationship with Monitor’s signature nonprofit partner:

New Profit Inc. Monitor has made a multi-year, multi-million dollar investment of pro-bono consulting and other support in New Profit Inc., a nonprofit venture philanthropy organization that helps visionary social entrepreneurs and their organizations bring about widespread and transformative impact on critical social problems. The Institute has supported New Profit’s development in several ways: leading Monitor consulting teams working with New Profit portfolio organizations; providing design, facilitation and content for the annual Gathering of Leaders; partnering on the Urban Assets Initiative; and assisting New Profit with its own strategy.

And over the years, the Institute has had a number of other significant partnerships. For example, we are now building a close alliance with an innovative international development agency to promote market-based solutions to social problems in Central and South America:

SNV Latin America. SNV, the Netherlands Development Organization, works with leading private, public, and social sector organizations to help them succeed, grow, and scale by unlocking and harnessing their true potential for transformative social change. SNV-Latin America, in partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, is the pioneer and leading practitioner of Inclusive Business, an innovative means to increasing economic growth while reducing poverty and inequity. SNV is actively supporting nearly 50 inclusive business ventures and inclusive public policy efforts in Central America and the Andes that have the potential to create over 500,000 new jobs and improve the livelihoods of more than 2.5 million of the region’s poor.