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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A cinematic scene of Warren Buffet on a glowing megastructure, with panicked traders in a retro-futuristic city at golden hour. Discussions about AI bubbles, interest rates, and even far-away wars ...

This document is available here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. Advances in science and medicine have inspired advances that correspond to historical inflection points of rapidly improving health. These ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...