Systems thinking

Evaluation as an Ecosystem: Building our ability to collaborate effectively by Liz Gordillo, Rory Neuner, Leah Josephson, and Lauren Beriont

1 Comment / Independent Consulting / October 9, 2020 October 12, 2020

Hi, we’re Liz Gordillo (Liz G Strategy), Rory Neuner (formerly with the Michigan Health Endowment Fund), Leah Josephson (Emergence Collective), and Lauren Beriont (Emergence Collective). Since 2019, we’ve been working on building the evaluation ecosystem of Michigan. First, let’s back up to why we thought this was important. One worldview is that evaluation consultants compete …

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How To Simplify Complex Systems Change Initiatives to Design Effective Evaluations by Elizabeth McGee

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 6, 2020 February 29, 2020

Hi! I’m Elizabeth McGee, founder of LEAP Consulting. LEAP helps nonprofits, foundations, and public institutions achieve impact through meaningful evaluations and strategic support. As a consultant specializing in evaluating systems change, I have the opportunity to work with clients whose efforts target large-scale systems, and this requires the ability to simplify seemingly abstract initiatives in …

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LAWG Week: Evaluation 2018 from a Systems Thinking Perspective by Jan Noga

1 Comment / Uncategorized / July 20, 2018 July 16, 2018

Hello, my name is Jan Noga. I’m the owner of Pathfinder Evaluation and Consulting in Cincinnati. I’m excited to see the conference here in Ohio; although, living in the opposite corner of the state, it’s going to take me longer to drive to Cleveland than it would to fly to DC! The conference is exciting. …

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CP TIG Week: Natalie Wilkins and Shakiyla Smith on Systems Thinking for Achieving (and Evaluating) Population Level Impact

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology / July 29, 2016 June 20, 2016

We are Natalie Wilkins and Shakiyla Smith from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As public health scientists and evaluators, we are charged with achieving and measuring community and population level impact in injury and violence prevention. The public health model includes: (1) defining the problem, (2) …

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ROE TIG Week: Sara Vaca and Pablo Vidueira on How Systems Thinking tools could be improved with better dataviz

Leave a Comment / Research on Evaluation / August 14, 2015 August 9, 2015

Hi! We are Sara Vaca (EvalQuality.com) and Pablo Vidueira (professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). Today we are going to talk about the benefits of using the latest advances in data visualization to improve ST tools. Systems Thinking (ST) is the new paradigm in Evaluation which represents a significant mind-set shift and a powerful …

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Logic Models Week: Kylie Hutchinson on Logic Models in the Age of Systems Thinking

1 Comment / Uncategorized / March 25, 2015 March 22, 2015

I’m Kylie Hutchinson, independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. I also tweet regularly at @EvaluationMaven. Systems thinking and evaluation is a hot topic these days, and as someone who spends a fair bit of time in evaluation capacity building, it has me thinking a lot about logic models. Some of …

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Logic Models Week: Debra Smith and Galen Ellis on How Logic Models Can Be Used to Develop Evaluation Systems

2 Comments / Uncategorized / March 23, 2015 March 21, 2015

We are Debra Smith and Galen Ellis, two evaluators who discovered through AEA that we share a common method of using logic models to facilitate systems thinking with our clients. Many people think logic models are a complicated exercise with little value. Some are downright cynical, saying they tend to represent “a tenuous chain of …

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Developmental Eval Week: Nora F. Murphy on Qualitative Data in Developmental Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Qualitative Methods / March 4, 2015 February 28, 2015

Hi, I’m Nora F. Murphy, a developmental evaluator and co-founder of TerraLuna Collaborative. Qualitative Methods have been a critical component of every developmental evaluation I have been a part of. Over the years I’ve learned a few tricks about making qualitative methods work in a developmental evaluation context. Hot Tip: Apply systems thinking. When using developmental evaluation …

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Natalia Kosheleva on Measuring The Extent of Program Intervention into Targeted Systems

Leave a Comment / Evaluation Use, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / June 10, 2011 June 6, 2011

Hi! My name is Natalia Kosheleva. I’m a consultant at Process Consulting Company, Moscow, Russia. Here I would like to share my ideas about measuring the extent of program intervention into targeted systems. I base my work on two systems thinking principles. The Hierarchy principle says that any system is an element of some larger …

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