Putting Principles in Practice
A good principle can be a source of inspiration and guidance for action and accountability if we know how to develop it.
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Design-Driven Evaluation and System Change
Our designs drive systems change as much as anything and feedback drives good design. Feedback comes from evaluation so it
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Evaluation and Design: Language for Innovation
Design and evaluation are a two-way street and both fields of practice are wise to learn each others’ language Design
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Systems Thinking About Time and Motion
In changing times its important to recognize both the words change and time if we want to understand systems. On
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Vision + Evaluation
Vision is about where you want to go, evaluation tells you if you are getting there. Without one, we leave
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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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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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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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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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Leadership & Design Thinking: Missed Opportunities
A recent article titled ‘The Right Way to Lead Design Thinking’ gets a lot of things wrong not because of
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