Your search
Results 124 resources
-
New tools for managing complexityDoes your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone.According to The Boston Consulting Group’s fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold during the past sixty years. And, all the while, organizational complicatedness—that is, the number of structures, processes, committees, decision-making forums, and systems—has increased by a whopping factor of thirty-five. In their attempt to...
-
The End of Assembly Line ManagementWe’re in the midst of a revolution. Quantum leaps in technology are enabling organizations to observe and measure people’s behavior in real time, communicate internally at extraordinary speed, and innovate continuously. These new, software-driven technologies are transforming the way companies interact with their customers, employees, and other stakeholders.This is no mere tech issue. The transformation requires a complete rethinking of the way we organize...
-
We live in a world that is broken. For those who believe that there must be a more agile and efficient way for people to get things done, here from Scrum pioneer Jeff Sutherland is a brilliantly discursive, thought-provoking book about the leadership and management process that is changing the way we live. In the future, historians may look back on human progress and draw a sharp line designating "before Scrum" and "after Scrum." Scrum is that ground-breaking. It already drives most of the...
-
Practice an agile form of management to stop wasting time and money Scrum For Dummies is an easy to use guide to managing the tricky transition from a traditional project management methodology to the new and most popular agile framework. As the most efficient, successful methodology for team project management, Scrum relies on transparency, flexibility, and fluidity to deliver a final product that fulfills the needs of all stakeholders. Written in easy–to–read Dummies style, this book...
-
Dr Joseph Needham's account of the Chinese achievement in science and technology will stand as one of the great works of our time. It has been acclaimed by specialists in both East and West and also by readers with wider and more general interests. The text, based on research of a high critical quality, is supported by many hundreds of illustrations and is imbued with a warm appreciation of China. Volume I is an introductory volume, in which Dr Needham prepares his readers for the study of a...
-
Scaling Impact introduces a new and practical approach to scaling the positive impacts of research and innovation. Inspired by leading scientific and entrepreneurial innovators from across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East, this book presents a synthesis of unrivalled diversity and grounded ingenuity. The result is a different perspective on how to achieve impact that matters, and an important challenge to the predominant more-is-better paradigm of scaling. For...
-
"Participatory Design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the people affected by the technology designed. Embracing a diverse collection of principles and practices aimed at making technologies, tools, environments, businesses, and social institutions more responsive to human needs, the International Handbook of Participatory Design is a...
-
Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency. "Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding the world and a new approach to managing resources. It embraces human and natural systems as...
-
Rapid Results! shows how to make large-scale changes succeed by using 100-day results-producing projects to develop this vital implementation capability. Written by Robert H. Schaffer, Ronald N. Ashkenas, and their associates—leaders in the field of change management—Rapid Results! describes an approach that has been field-tested by real organizations of every size and description to improve performance and speed the pace of change. Rapid results projects produce results quickly, introduce...
-
Based on a broad international consultative process, the DAC Quality Standards for Development Evaluation are a reference guide to good practice in development evaluation. With a view to improving the quality of evaluation processes and products, and facilitating collaboration, this reference guide lays out standards for each phase of a typical evaluation process: from defining purpose, to planning, designing, implementing, reporting, and learning from and using evaluation results.
-
Learning from our experience in 2020, we asked the alumni of our HKS Implementing Public Policy (IPP) Executive Education program, if they wanted to work with our students on their nominated problems. Eight IPP alumni, William Keith Young, Adaeze Oreh, Milzy Carrasco, Kevin Schilling, Artem Shaipov, George Imbenzi, David Wuyep, and Raphael Kenigsberg, who had been trained on PDIA and implementation, signed up to work with our students. Thirty-seven students signed up to take the course...
-
"Outcome Mapping provides not only a guide to essential evaluation map-making, but also a guide to learning and increased effectiveness, and affirmation that being attentive along the journey is as important as, and critical to, arriving at a destination." - Michael Quinn PattonMore and more, development organizations are under pressure to demonstrate that their programs result in significant and lasting changes in the well-being of their intended beneficiaries. However, such "impacts" are...
-
"John Kay tells a fast-paced detective story as he searches for the surprising secret to success...Brilliant." -Tim Harford, author of The Logic of Life In this revolutionary book, economist John Kay proves a notion that feels at once paradoxical and deeply commonsensical: the best way to achieve any complex or broadly defined goal, from happiness to preventing forest fires, is the indirect way. We can learn how to achieve our objectives only through a gradual process of risk taking ...
-
Foreign aid organizations collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually, with mixed results. Part of the problem in these endeavors lies in their execution. When should foreign aid organizations empower actors on the front lines of delivery to guide aid interventions, and when should distant headquarters lead? In Navigation by Judgment, Dan Honig argues that high-quality implementation of foreign aid programs often requires contextual information that cannot be seen by those in...
-
Governments and organizations invest huge sums of money in development interventions to explicitly address poverty and its root causes. However, a high proportion of these do not work. This is because interventions are grounded in flawed assumptions about how change happens -- change is rarely linear, yet development interventions are almost entirely based on linear planning models. Change is also characterized by unintended consequences, which are not predictable by planners and by power...
-
In Making the Most of Mess, Emery Roe emphasizes that policy messes cannot be avoided or cleaned up; they need to be managed. He shows how policymakers and other professionals can learn these necessary skills from control operators who manage large critical infrastructures such as water supplies, telecommunications systems, and electricity grids. The ways in which they prevent major accidents and failures offer models for policymakers and other professionals to manage the messes they...
Explore
Theme
-
Adaptive Approaches [+]
- Adaptive Learning (18)
- Adaptive Management (17)
- Agile & Lean approaches (21)
- Capacity WORKS (1)
- Design Thinking / HCD (15)
- Doing Development Differently (1)
- Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (2)
- Other Adaptive approaches (3)
-
Other sectors
(25)
- Activism and Social Movements (1)
- Environmental (4)
- Logistics & Product Development (6)
- Military (1)
- Organizational Management (10)
- Philosophical roots (2)
- Project management (2)
- Psychology (1)
- Sport (1)
- Participation (1)
- PDIA (Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation) (3)
- PEA (Political Economy Analysis) (1)
- Positive Deviance & 2 loops model (3)
- Results Based Management (1)
- Systems Thinking / Complexity (36)
- TWP (Thinking & Working Politically) (5)
- Cases (3)
- Development Actors Perspectives (6)
-
Geography
(4)
-
Africa
(1)
-
Eastern Africa
(1)
- Kenya (1)
-
West Africa
(1)
- Nigeria (1)
-
Eastern Africa
(1)
-
Americas
(1)
-
North America
(1)
- Canada (1)
- United States of America (1)
-
North America
(1)
-
Asia
(2)
-
Eastern Asia
(2)
- China (2)
-
Eastern Asia
(2)
-
Europe
(1)
-
Eastern Europe
(1)
- Ukraine (1)
-
Western Europe
(1)
- France (1)
-
Eastern Europe
(1)
-
Africa
(1)
-
MEL4 Adaptive Management
(12)
- Contribution Analysis (1)
- Cost-Benefit Analysis (1)
- Delphi Survey (1)
- Focus Group Discussions (1)
- Mapping Visualization Methods (1)
- Network Analysis (1)
- Outcome Mapping (1)
- Participatory Action Research (2)
- Participatory Learning and Action - PLA (1)
- Participatory Rural Appraisal - PRA, RRA (1)
- Peers/Peer-Group Review (1)
- Positive Deviance (1)
- SenseMaker (1)
- SWOT Analysis (1)
- Systems Mapping (1)
- TOC (Theory of Change) (1)
- Utilisation focused evaluation (1)
- Networks and Communities of Practice (2)
- Practical (6)
-
Sectors [+]
(29)
- Alternative Development (16)
- Citizen Engagement (3)
- Combatting violent extremism (1)
- Fragile and Conflict Aflicted Settings (1)
- Governance and Accountability (4)
- Innovation (in Development) (4)
- Institutional Reform (1)
- Knowledge to Practice (2)
- NGOs (1)
- Organizational Change (2)
- Peace Building (1)
- Rural development (3)
- Scaling up / Propagating (1)
- Social Accountability (1)
-
Technology (in Development)
(5)
- Appropriate Tech (3)
Resource type
Publication year
- Between 1900 and 1999 (26)
- Between 2000 and 2024 (98)