Amplification and Impact
Transformations are easier to understand retrospectively, not in real time. New technologies are about to upend that, forever. It is
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Scaling Impact
‘Achieving scale’ might be the golden goose of social innovation. It’s a simple phrase, but its meaning and misunderstanding is
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What Does Developmental Evaluation Look Like?
Developmental Evaluation is all about using data to support innovation. How does this look in practice (and how’s it done?)
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Knowing Your Impact
Evaluation tells your innovation’s impact story to the wider world. Learn more about what you do by learning about evaluation.
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Design for Movement
Innovation requires learning to design for the changes around us. This involves not treating moving things as if they’re still.
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Deception and Labels
Labels can shape the behaviour they describe, affecting our research. Knowing when labels describes or shapes actions makes a difference.
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Same and Different
Our ability to affect change in organizations and systems is based heavily on our assumptions about similarities and differences between
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Transformation and Innovation
Innovation can involve small adjustments or great transformations. Social media provides a case study for understanding why ongoing monitoring and
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Innovation, Change and The Leopard
Innovation is a misunderstood and often misrepresented concept that can provoke fear, indifference, resentment, confusion, or irrational exuberance. To understand
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Innovation Evaluation and the Burden of Proof
Innovating is about doing something new to produce value and this introduces substantial challenges for strategy and evaluation. Without knowing
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