Additional menu

FreshSpectrum

Chris Lysy's Evaluation Blog

Reporting

The Reporting Revolution 2nd Edition (NOW AVAILABLE!)

2 Comments

Now Available! The Reporting Revolution (2nd Edition)

What’s new?

  • Cheaper! $5 Kindle, $10 Print
  • Completely re-illustrated (less stock, more drawings & comics)
  • Revised strategy section (easier to follow)

Launch Special!

If you buy the book in November, you’ll get access to a free modern reporting jumpstart webinar on December 4 at 11AM Eastern. I’ll even record the thing, so even if you miss it you can still watch. All you have to do is buy the book, then send me an email to let me know.

Contact info here > freshspectrum.com/contact

The Reporting Three-Step Method

Summary: In this post I’ll show you a quick way to set up your own continuous reporting system.

I’ve been working on my follow-up to The Reporting Revolution. I think I did an okay job of setting up my basic argument, that it’s time to change how we report and move beyond the PDF.

I focused a lot on the why, and was less clear on the how. While I shared a handful of reporting strategies, I didn’t come out and say which I thought was best.

But the more I work with organizations on their reporting, the more convinced I become that continuous reporting is not one of the ways. IT IS THE WAY.

The Reporting Shift

Continuous reporting is what you do when you report as you go.

It can be as simple as it sounds. The biggest barriers are not from the technology required, but from habit, lack of training, and silos.

In most organizations, the people who evaluate the programs are different from the people who write the blog posts who are different from the people who design the website. So what would be easy for a little organization, one that has just a few people who wear many hats, can be incredibly complicated for a larger one.

But for the sake of this post, let’s pretend it is easy. That you, the evaluator, have the power to do the following three things.

[Read more…] about The Reporting Three-Step Method

The Future of Reporting

Summary: In this post I’m going to tell you the future.

You can think about prediction as looking at the past and then projecting into the future. But there is an easier way. Instead of looking backwards or forwards, look to the side.

Whatever you face, chances are, other fields or organizations are going through similar changes brought on by similar challenges. And there are some things we can predict by just paying attention to what’s happening elsewhere.

I believe the future of reporting is one of those things.

The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.

William Gibson
[Read more…] about The Future of Reporting