Design
How Might We Leverage Informed Intuition for Decision-making?
As part of some research the Monitor Institute has been doing on how to effectively identify early-stage, high-potential grantees, I’ve been...
Business
Choose Your Tools and Methods Wisely in Evaluation
This post is a response to "How Might We Use the Right Tools and Methods for the Task?" Read more of the conversation here. "Right" means...
Design
Innovation in Evaluation: an Introduction
At IDEO, we've been starting to think about the social impact of our work, and our journey into the realm of social impact has brought us...
Design
Distinguishing Expert Intuition from Lay Intuition
This post is a response to “How Might We Leverage Informed Intuition for Decision-making?” Learn more about the conversation here. My...
Business
How Might We Emphasize Cost Effective Evaluation Tools?
Emphasizing cost effective evaluation tools can get us better results with less effort, enabling innovators to do more good with a given...
Design
Innovation and Evaluation are Inseparable
On August 12th, thought leaders from diverse organizations and viewpoints came together for a roundtable workshop to discuss the theme of this...
Design
How Might We Zoom Out to Evaluating With a Systemic View?
Many innovations in the social sector promise to create systemic transformation. But if we intend for our ideas to have systemic impacts,...
Business
Don't Skimp on Evaluation, Even When Budgets Shrink
This post is a response to “How Might We Emphasize Cost Effective Evaluation Tools?” Read more of the conversation here. We face a time when...
Design
How Might We Put People at the Center of Evaluation?
As a design and innovation consultancy built on the notion of putting people at the center of the design process, taking a human-centered...
Design
Evaluating Systems Change
This post is a response to "How Might We Zoom Out to Evaluating With a Systemic View?" Read more of the conversation here. Much of the work...
Business
Sustaining Innovation in Evaluation
This week marks the close of our blog series. For the past three months, this stimulating conversation has prompted a...
Design
The Desire to Quantify, Measure, and Account for Philanthropy
This post is a response to "How might we put people at the center of evaluation?" Learn more about the conversation here. On August 12th,...
Business
How Might We Measure What’s Most Meaningful?
We live in a society that has refined its measurement of economic activity to an extreme degree. Indeed, many of the measures that we rely on...
Design
How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation?
Why do we evaluate? Sometimes it's for reflective validation: qualifying the success of a program after it is complete. Other times it's for...
Design
In the Nonprofit World, Numbers Don't Tell the Full Story
This post is a response to "How Might We Measure What's Most Meaningful?" Read more of the conversation here. The dashboard is the holy...
Design
All Organizations Must Be Learning Organizations
This post is a response to "How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation?" Learn more about the conversation here. The Skoll...
Design
How Might We Visualize Data in More Effective and Inspiring Ways?
We have many dashboards available to us today in many contexts: finance, forecasts, consumption, demographics, etc. We witness the emergence...
Design
More on Evaluation for Learning
This post is a response to "How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation?" Learn more about the conversation here. I appreciated...
