Today’s report review took me a strange direction. What started as a simple report review ended up becoming a full working paper, but more on that shortly. This post is in two parts: In the US if a hospital wants to be tax exempt it has do a few things to meet IRS requirements. One […]
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Reports are Comic Books, Insights are Spider-Man
Spider-Man started in a comic book. Nowadays you’ll find Spider-Man in big budget movies, stage shows, theme parks, children’s books, halloween costume contests, popular memes, backpack designs, and bedroom sheets. The character traveled over the years from a concept in Stan Lee’s mind to become a household name across the globe. All sorts of good […]
Report Review: UNDP Annual Report 2025
I’ve been working a lot on testing and improving my theory of use framework. Basically I take reports that should have pretty broad reach then run a kind of external dissemination audit. It’s not quite the same as the dissemination audits I give my clients because with those I have a lot more insider information. […]
Simple But Effective Resource Page Illustrations – Before and After
This is one in a series of before and after designs. With this particular post I am sharing lessons from an actual client project. You can see other before and after posts in the series by following this link. How it Started – SECPI Resources I started working with SECPI (Strengthening Evaluation Contracting Partnerships Initiative) at […]
Dissemination Systems Change
How to shift your organization away from Report Factory and towards a strong Insight Ecosystem. I. Moving Beyond Performative Dissemination I believe that most evaluation teams write reports with the best of intentions. They work late nights cleaning data, discovering insights, drafting narrative, and obsessing over clarity. Most people don’t get into research or evaluation […]
Two-Step Templates for Everyday Reports
Most people design their everyday reports, briefs, and knowledge products the wrong way. Not because they’re bad at design. Because they’re trying to write and design at the same time. It’s a multitasking problem. Writing is hard. Design is hard. Doing both simultaneously — in the same document, on the same deadline — means you’re […]