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 …
Change is everywhere it seems and while it can be said it is the only constant what we are seeing is an increase of change on a massive scale. However, as the protesters across the United States, Canada and beyond are making clear: there is a big difference between talk of change, the process of …
If you’re looking to measure some form of progress or impact connected to your innovation (a product, service, or policy) then paying attention to the starting point is critical. Evaluators call this a baseline and it’s maybe the most important line you can draw. A baseline is really the point of comparison for all you …
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 …
