Looking at bottom-line results in areas such as spending, sales or profits doesn't help you understand how or why you reached those results or how to improve your performance. Setting goals and ...

I’ve recently written blog posts regarding the importance of outcomes measurement and offering some advice on how to approach the measurement process. For organizations that have embraced outcomes ...

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” This famous business maxim, along with several variations, have been attributed to renowned management expert Peter Drucker. They’ve motivated ...

Do you ever feel like things in your business aren’t going quite as well as you’d like? Or that the success you desire is just out of reach? Entrepreneurs are known for having big ambitions, and that ...

It is hard to improve what you can't measure. However, finding ways to measure progress is difficult unless it is directly related to a certain dollar amount. For instance, how do you measure the ...

Why: Why is a framework important to evaluation? A framework offers signposts for guiding the complex work of evaluation. It highlights the context, activities, and intended outcomes of evaluating ...

Fall is in the air, as we settle into familiar routines – school and swim practices resuming, sweaters and apple or pumpkin flavoured sweets everywhere, and beginning to set our goals for the season ...

African American men in California can expect to live fewer than 73 years—about the same as the life expectancy of men in Tunisia and Vietnam, countries with far fewer health care resources. Meanwhile ...