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Recent Posts
- Evaluation of marketing – grappling with the important but hard to measure outcomes
- The Friday Funny: A surrealistic mega-analysis of redisorganization theories
- Getting the facts straight on youth unemployment rates
- The Friday Funny: Negotiating the budget
- The Friday Funny: Evaluation and content expertise
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- Michael Scriven on Evaluation of marketing – grappling with the important but hard to measure outcomes
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- Tarina MacDonald on 9 golden rules for commissioning a waste-of-money evaluation
- Tarina MacDonald on Valuing cultural expertise – in $$ terms
Archives
Category Archives: Learning from failure
Commissioning XGEMs – the sequel
In Monday’s post, Extreme Genuine Evaluation Makeovers (XGEMs) for Commissioning, I discussed a way of kicking off the process of selecting an evaluator for a project by suggesting that well-designed EOIs would often be more informative, less onerous (on both … Continue reading
The Friday Funny: The “dead horse” evaluation
According to the wisdom of the unattributed traditional saying, passed on from website to website, “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.“ We have been studying a particular species of evaluation … Continue reading
The importance of visible, high level commitment to evaluation
One of the favorite stories I tell about evaluation is about going to meet a senior manager to discuss evaluation and finding him standing on a table in the middle of an open-plan office, with the staff gathered around him, … Continue reading
The Friday Funny: Community evaluation of bike lanes
This week brings together two issues that seem to be recurring themes in genuine evaluation – dealing with making mistakes and community involvement in evaluation processes. Check out these sites on the world’s worst cycle lanes. Continue reading
Business leaders learning from ‘stuff ups’
In response to an earlier post, Caroline Heider asked the million-dollar question: How does one develop .. a culture [of reflective or evaluative thinking] when it is not intrinsic or when incentives exist to share information only about success/the positive … Continue reading
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