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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Innovators are a hopeful lot. They are looking to find an advantage by creating something new that will improve their current condition or at the very least prevent their current situation from deteriorating. Sometimes you need to change to keep things the same. Evaluation is one of the hidden (maybe secret) advantages from those innovators
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Evaluation is more than just the assessment of merit, worth, and significance of a program, product, or service. Although these are the primary functions of evaluation, it can serve far more than this when designed and implemented in the appropriate manner. Evaluation focuses attention on the things that your organization builds, has built, and implements
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There is not a bigger question for innovators — social, product, service, policy — than What are you hiring this [ ] to do for you? Let’s break this down a little and then explain why we ask that at the beginning of any engagement and all throughout from the first meeting to the final run
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Follow us for a moment. We’re going to talk about design, innovation, evaluation, and how they all go together. Design is really the discipline — the theory, science, and practice — of innovation. That means that if you are innovating, you’re designing. Innovating is about adding value through introducing something new to a situation —
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