Our designs drive systems change as much as anything and feedback drives good design. Feedback comes from evaluation so it makes sense that the two should work together. This is a version of a post I recently contributed to the American Evaluation Association’s AEA365 blog. Developmental Evaluation is a specific approach to strategic learning suited …
VIsionary evaluation is about putting data to our principles and actions and seeing where we’ve come from and where we’re going at the same time. This article explores what it is and what we need to do.
We prepare for what we know and see. To address the challenges of the future, we need to imagine things differently in order to see them before they exist. Sometimes we need to believe to see things. Sometimes we need to know what we don’t know and can’t know (now) to understand what we’ll need …
Vision is about where you want to go, evaluation tells you if you are getting there. Without one, we leave the other lost. The shift in the calendar from one year or decade to another provides a cultural transition place for renewal and looking forward. Vision — as we’ve covered before — is one the …
Evaluation is the longest four-letter word in the English language. Kidding aside, what is evaluation? Why should we all care? Evaluators are an existential bunch, which might surprise you. Evaluation is not a popular word with people. Too often it’s associated with things that are done to us not with us or for us or …
