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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The Mindset for Design-Driven Evaluation
What distinguishes design-driven evaluation from other types of utilization-focused evaluation or innovation development is that it views the evaluative act
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Developmental Evaluation is not for you
Developmental evaluation is a powerful tool to support innovation, engaging communities, and foster deep learning. While it might be growing
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Utility in Design-Driven Evaluation
Design-driven evaluation focuses attention on what organization’s use in their decision-making and learning to support the creation of their products,
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Design-driven Evaluation
A greater push for inclusion of evaluation data to make decisions and support innovation is not generating value if there
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Baby, It’s Cold Outside (and Other Evaluation Lessons)
The recent decision by many radio stations to remove the song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” from their rotation this holiday
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Learning: The Innovators’ Guaranteed Outcome
Innovation involves bringing something new into the world and that often means a lot of uncertainty with respect to outcomes.
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