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I recently attended the Canadian Evaluation Society’s annual learning event entitled Innovation in Evaluation. As both an evaluation researcher and a change management consultant, I was particularly captivated by notion of ‘Developmental… continue reading
I recently attended the conference Transforming the Public Service 2012: Weathering the Perfect Storm, presented by the Conference Board of Canada. My main take-away was that public service transformation is subsidiary to the global… continue reading
The theme of the Sixteenth PPX Annual Symposium – From a Compliance Mindset to a Performance Culture – gets to the heart of the challenge posed by results-based management (RBM) but … is RBM still relevant in Government? That was the… continue reading
The best and most appropriate thing to do when asked to conduct an evaluation with insufficient time, budget and/or resources is to simply walk away. However, this is not always possible – especially for in-house evaluation… continue reading
The theme of the forthcoming PPX Annual Symposium - From a Compliance Mindset to a Performance Culture – gets to the heart of the challenge posed by results-based management. One of the keynote questions is “… what level of cultural… continue reading
Results-based management in its current iteration has been around for over ten years and has taken firm root in the Public Service modus operandi as evidenced by the new Policy on Evaluation that requires all direct spending to be… continue reading
In response to my recent blog concerning why Public Service managers should care about Program Evaluation, I was asked about the difference between evaluation and performance measurement. As these terms are bandied about rather loosely,… continue reading
from: Performance and Planning Exchange (PPX) - November 28, 2011 This morning I attended another excellent PPX sharing and learning event at which senior performance measurement and evaluation managers from TBS and several line… continue reading
Update: the 2011 PSES has been extended to October 7th! Public Service employees have only 3 8 days left to complete the 2011 Public Service Employee Survey (PSES). Twenty-eight of the seventy substantive questions address the… continue reading
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. - Milton Friedman Delta Partners is pleased to present our newest eBook Evaluation - A Primer on Evaluation in the… continue reading
Some time ago, in anticipation of the new Government of Canada (GOC) Policy on Evaluation, we conducted an evaluation benchmarking study of several federal government departments and agencies on behalf of one of our clients. By… continue reading
The LPGA Commissioner, Michael Whan, just announced the plan to inaugurate a fifth major tournament on the LPGA tour, sparking a discussion on the Morning Drive television program about fairness … Annika Sorenstam, for example, had… continue reading
A great deal is written about the self-identity of ‘evaluation’ as a discipline and/or a profession. Viewpoints abound concerning the role and expectations of evaluators, ranging in scope from mere collector and presenter of factual… continue reading
I believe that ‘innovation’ is the source of constant discussion because nobody knows what to do about the massive problems facing the world today. Whether on the national stage or at the level of the organization, the message is the… continue reading
Some time ago, in a paper describing the important distinction between organizational climate and culture, I used the term ‘anomie’ as one of the dysfunctional states of culture. But, what is anomie and why should you care? I would… continue reading
Jim Taggart recently posted an interesting and useful blog on the Difference between Corporate Culture and Climate - a subject that I have been working on for some time. As a change management consultant with a social science… continue reading
When I started working as a consultant, nearly 20 years ago, employee engagement was a largely foreign concept in the federal Public Service. That’s why it’s gratifying to see the new Head of the Public Service, in his first Annual… continue reading