Future Foresight

Evaluation’s Journey towards the Future, Part 7. A Collective Navigation System for this time of Polycrisis

In this second last post in this series I, like others, argue that it is not enough that the field evaluation simply ...
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Evaluation’s Journey towards the Future, Part 6. Evaluating yesterday’s world for tomorrow’s challenges?

  * Why are we still evaluating yesterday's world to plan for tomorrow's challenges? Evaluation after evaluation that land on my desk ...
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Snippets and Titbits 1. The Zoo of Future Risks

  My first 'Snippet and Titbit'-the first random reading or thought morsel I would like to share more widely! This one is ...
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Mission-oriented Evaluation

We need Mission Thinking, Moonshot Thinking, and Mission-Oriented Evaluation if we are to ensure evaluation is fit for purpose for this era. ...
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Towards Transformation, 3. A grand narrative for evaluation in this era

**5 min read** In its very essence, the concept of evaluation is beautiful, I argued long ago in one of my first ...
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Snippet: Global risks

As the powerful gather in Davos this week, it is a good time to reflect on the WEF's excellent Global Risks Report ...
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Grand Challenges, Part 2

In my previous post I highlighted the notion of Grand Challenges and where they have been developed. In this post I raise ...
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Grand Challenges, Part 1

In July 2014 I wrote a short paper for EES Connections in which I asked whether the time was right for the ...
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