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...
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...
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...
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...
Business
How Might We Use the Right Tools and Methods for the Task?
We recently met an organization who complained that it seemed as though evaluation methods are often simply an exercise in "checking the box"...
Design
Timing is Everything in Evaluation
This post is a response to "How Might We Measure in the Appropriate Timeframe?" Read more of the conversation here. Many of the blog entries to...
Design
How Might We Measure in the Appropriate Timeframe?
These short-term metrics are going to kill this great idea... We need to give it more time.... We'll just have to wait and see... It's...
Design
Fact and Fiction (and How to Tell the Difference) in Data Visualization
This post is a response to "How Might We Visualize Data in More Effective and Inspiring Ways?" Read more of the conversation...
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
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...
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
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Design
Bring on the Uncertainty
This post is a response to "How Might We Increase Comfort as We Navigate Uncertainty?" Learn more about the conversation here. There is a lot...
Design
Accept Discomfort as We Navigate Uncertainty
This post is a response to "How Might We Increase Comfort as We Navigate Uncertainty?" Learn more about the conversation here. In his...
Design
How Might We Increase Comfort as We Navigate Uncertainty?
Anyone who engages with new ideas must develop a certain level of comfort with uncertainty. Once an organization takes a step beyond what it...
