The Five Golden Rules of Evaluation

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“How can we measure and quantify our social impact?” That’s essentially the “exam question” for all evaluation projects. It’s what clients want to know and the question that should be at the fore of all evaluation designs. So, I thought I would share my Five Golden Rules of evaluation in the hope that these will […]
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Georgia On My Mind

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In the words of Hoagey Carmichael’s “old sweet song”, Georgia’s on my mind. Since 1930 that song has been covered by many great American artists, including Georgia’s own Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong. Willie Nelson once performed a version accompanied by former governor of Georgia and US President Jimmy Carter on harmonica. A […]
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Is Your Network Not Working?

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We live in a world of networks. Our phones and computer give us access to innumerable interactions that would have been inconceivable thirty years ago, allowing us to make endless connections on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and countless other social media platforms. The ongoing shift to working from home makes business and professional networks ever […]
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Keep Your Eyes on the Road! How dashboards and realtime data can help you see where you’re going

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Measuring the effectiveness of changes to working methods or the impact of new policies is traditionally a retroactive exercise: evaluations take data about what has happened to show what has changed and then projects that analysis on to future outcomes. If you drove your car this way it would be like trying to work out […]
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