Evaluation is more than just a means to measure impact; it reveals hidden value within the innovation process and destination. Evaluation is often considered to be something that is done to or of something when it is completed. This is the innovation’s destination. For some, evaluation is about understanding the process — what happens along […]
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Innovators — those seeking to take an idea for a product, service, or policy and make it real — usually have a pretty clear sense of what they are trying to achieve with their innovation. This is the primary purpose and may reflect where the innovation achieves the greatest impact. But is this all it does?
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One of Evaluation’s greatest contributions to innovation is its ability to expand the vision of the innovator and attend to matters of perception. What we look at it is not always all we consciously see, nor is what we see the sum of all we perceive. Humans have many conscious and unconscious biases in what
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In a world filled with increasing number of signals and lots of noise, it can be difficult to achieve focus and determine what to pay attention to. In this third piece in a series, Evaluation: The Innovator’s Secret Advantage, we look at one of the bedrocks of sustainable innovation that is the best representation of something
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We begin a series called the Innovators Secret Advantage by starting with a simple, but powerful premise: perspective is everything. This is based on a phrase that we use as our guide at Cense: “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust Evaluation is most commonly
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