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Developmental Evaluation: Systems and Complexity

Leave a Comment / Past Events / admin / January 20, 2023 / Complexity., Systems Thinking

Instructor: Michael Quinn Patton, PhD Description: The field of evaluation already has a rich variety of contrasting models, competing purposes, alternatives methods, and divergent techniques that can be applied to projects and organizational innovations that vary in scope, comprehensiveness, and complexity. The challenge, then, is to match evaluation to the nature of the initiative being evaluated. This […]

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How does the commissioning process hinder the uptake of complexity-appropriate evaluation?

Leave a Comment / Articles / admin / April 13, 2021 / Commissioning Evaluation, Complexity., Global Networks

This paper investigates the role of evaluation commissioning in hindering the take-up of complexity-appropriate evaluation methods, using findings from interviews with 19 UK evaluation commissioners and contractors. We find, against a backdrop of a need to ‘do more with less’ and frustration with some traditional approaches, the commissioning process is perceived to hinder adoption of

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Wicked Solutions: A systems approach to complex problems

Leave a Comment / Books / admin / October 25, 2019 / Complexity., Principle 5: Transboundary Engagement, Principle 7: Cross-Silos, Systems Thinking

By Bob Williams and Sjon van ‘t Hof 2014 Wicked problems are complex, ill-structured, human problem situations. This book will help you design an inquiry and intervention in such messy, wicked situations. Access e-book.

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