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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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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Meaning and metrics for innovation
Metrics are at the heart of evaluation of impact and value in products and services although they are rarely straightforward.
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Understanding Value in Evaluation and Innovation
Value is literally at the root of the word evaluation yet is scarcely mentioned in the conversation about innovation and
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How do we sit with time?
Organizational transformation efforts from culture change to developmental evaluation all depend on one ingredient that is rarely discussed: time. How
Read moreElevating Design & Design Thinking
Design thinking has brought the language of design into popular discourse across different fields, but it’s failings threaten to
Read moreBeyond Bullshit for Design Thinking
Design thinking is in its ‘bullshit’ phase, a time characterized by wild hype, popularity and little evidence of what it
Read moreDesign thinking is BS (and other harsh truths)
Design thinking continues to gain popularity as a means for creative problem-solving and innovation across business and social sectors. Time
Read moreA mindset for developmental evaluation
Developmental evaluation requires different ways of thinking about programs, people, contexts and the data that comes from all three. Without
Read moreExploding goals and their myths
Goal-directed language guides much of our social policy, investment and quests for innovation without much thought of what that means
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