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This post ended up being really long, with lots of data. If don't feel like reading it, here is the TL/DR version. I wrote a bit about watching so many of our peers losing their jobs back in …
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Summary: While evaluation asks "did this work and why," Benefits Realisation tracks whether specific organizational wins (like cost savings or better employee retention) actually happened as planned. …
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If you are serious about creating better reports, it's time to take a step back. In this post I'm going to share my F.R.E.D. method for evaluating modern report dissemination. But let's start with …
I'm taking a sick day today. Picked up a case of strep throat at the end of last week that's now hopefully working its way out of my system. But sick days are boring, and instead of streaming yet …
Dear research and evaluation community, we have a website problem. The problem? Many of our websites suck. I'm talking about resource sites, toolkits, organization homepages, project websites, …
In today's post I want to address one those elephants in the room. It's about the biggest reason why data people have trouble producing creative work. We are all creative, but some of us have …
