This is a scenario I have repeatedly participated in or heard described in funder circles: A discussion about the importance of narrative change, often including examples of innovative work, generates ...

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 ...

As more foundations orient toward building community power, assessing progress becomes a critical challenge. Short-term grant cycles do not neatly line up with the long-term arc of social change, and ...

Paul Allin is a member of the UK National Statistician's Expert User Advisory Committee and he is the Royal Statistical Society's Honorary Officer for National Statistics. Views expressed in this ...

This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog and has been republished with permission. Although there are some people who advocate for dropping all your goals or focusing on systems instead of ...

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 ...

How does a government measure its own progress? Using 32 community indicators and 55 performance measures, according to a strategic plan the Vancouver City Council approved earlier this week. The ...

World leaders gathering for the U.N. General Assembly meeting this week are also reviewing progress in an ambitious international drive to reduce poverty, improve health and mitigate environmental ...

How Can We Usefully Measure Technology Progress? Can we have a scale that is immune to the Technology Singularity? Can we compare humanity on a common scale with animals and aliens? It is possible and ...

“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 ...

As coastal communities around the world are already facing the sobering consequences of sea level rise, government negotiators at the just-completed United Nations climate summit, known as COP30, ...