Developmental Evaluation (DE) is an approach to supporting the evolution and development of an innovation. This means not only helping guide where an innovation is going but understanding where it is now and where it has been. Just like human development, an innovation is as much a product of its past as it is the […]
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Evaluative thinking is at the heart of evaluation, yet it’s remarkably challenging to do in practice. To help strengthen those evaluative neural pathways, we offer some questions to aid you in developing your evaluative thinking skills. To begin, let’s first look at this odd concept of ‘evaluative thinking’. Tom Grayson’s recent post on the AEA
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Our earlier series on Developmental Evaluation (DE) and its traps illustrated things to watch out for. While powerful and attractive, DE is not for everyone and requires a strong set up to be successful. In this article, we do just that: outline how to set yourself up for success in using DE. Developmental Evaluation is a
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In this latest post in a series on Developmental Evaluation (DE) and its traps, we look at the innovator’s trap of culture. In a quote widely attributed to Peter Drucker Culture eats strategy for lunch Culture is basically “the way things are done around here”, which includes the policies, practices, and people that make what
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What if you tried to innovate and succeeded? This fourth in a series of posts looking at Developmental Evaluation traps explores that question and the implications that come from being good at innovating. A truly successful innovation changes things — mindsets, workflows, systems, and outcomes. Some of these changes are foreseeable, some are not and
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