The importance of measuring design impact is emphasized, questioning the value of unmeasured outcomes. The Design Council promotes systematic evaluation of design’s worth, especially in health and social sectors. Designers must tread cautiously, acknowledging their influence on systems and communities, and ensuring every design strategy incorporates evaluation for responsible innovation.
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If you’re stuck trying to connect your ambitions, your programs, and evidence for use in complex contexts, traditional evaluation models won’t get you there. Design-driven evaluation might. Complex contexts involve multiple sources of input, changing conditions, and different timescales. They bring together uncertainty and a resistance to rigid, linear plans and to the use of
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Cense’s approach combines design-driven evaluation with strategic innovation, recognizing that innovation in complex systems requires adaptive learning. By embedding evaluation throughout the innovation process, organizations can continuously capture insights, adapt strategies, and enhance learning. This integrated methodology fosters resilience, ensuring effective responses to challenges in dynamic environments.
When undertaking strategic planning for organizations operating in the complex space of health and human services, how do you account for creating meaningful ways to learn and adapt? Developmental Evaluation is how. Developmental Evaluation is a means to provide evaluative insight to guide the evolution of your program, but did you know it can be
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If you are looking to make a change and demonstrate it to others, there’s one thing you must do: capture your baseline. A baseline is your starting point. It can be done with whatever available data you have – the more specific, detailed and well-fitting, the better. However, don’t let the perfect be the enemy
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