The Big Why of Evaluation

We are on the brink of an evaluation renaissance. Smart grids, smart meters, smart buildings, and smart data are prominent themes in the industry lexicon. Smarter evaluation and research must follow. To explore this evaluation renaissance, I am looking both inside and outside the evaluation community in a search for fresh ideas, new methods, and novel twists on old methods. I am looking to others for their thoughts and experiences for advancing the evaluation and research practice. So, please…stay tuned, engage, and always, always question. Let’s get smarter together.

21 May

Appreciative Inquiry

The climate change alarm has reached a screeching level in the past couple of weeks. As pundits, activists, deniers, and those willfully oblivious...

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22 Apr

Emergent Learning Frameworks

“Emergence is a process by which, through many interactions, individual entities or “agents” create patterns that are more sophisticated than what...

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26 Mar

Actionable Intelligence

At the AESP 2019 Annual Conference, I met Carmen Best, a woman I have admired from afar for quite some time. Although she and I frequent the same...

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26 Feb

Implementation Research: Explain and Predict

In the last couple of posts, I have written about implementation research as discussed in the online article posted on BJM, Implementation...

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