“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” — Albert Einstein It’s a familiar discussion in the evaluation world – the importance of getting approximate answers to important questions about what really … Continue reading
Business Cartoon by Andertoons It’s a puzzling fact that one of the most costly and stressful organizational change strategies – restructuring – is virtually NEVER subjected to any serious evaluation. The reshuffling of lines and boxes; the layoffs; the unwanted … Continue reading
It was Michael Scriven‘s birthday this week, which is a fine time to introduce our Friday Funny with a short quote from the Evaluation Thesaurus, which lists the following entry. As evaluators, we are all familiar with this phenomenon in … Continue reading
Stuart Henderson’s mention of The Two Second Advantage (see the LinkedIn discussion referred to in the post from earlier this week) reminds me of the work of business strategist Arie De Geus, who discusses how learning organizations use scenario planning … Continue reading
Katherine Hay continues her guest blogging on evidence and evaluation. Ben Goldacre in The Guardian wrote that UK politicians “are ignorant about trials and they’re weird about evidence.” He contrasts this with international development where he talks about the “amazing … Continue reading
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Patricia at CIRCLE (RMIT)