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Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, writes about how well-managed think tanks can avoid a steady drum-beat of project cost overruns, and five key ingredients that...
Essentially, all think tanks turn to consultants to supplement their resident staff. Often a think tank undertakes a project for which it has some of the required...
Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, writes about how organisations can best manage individual consultants engaged to carry out major tasks largely independently,...
In 2017, OTT published a set of documents under the OTT Best Practice Series. Each document dealt with a different topic and produced a best practice statement, based on the experiences of...
Simply put, the full cost of a research project rightfully includes a share of the overall non–project specific costs needed to operate the organization as a...
Training needs arise from on-boarding new staff and from the need to improve staff quality. Most think tanks experience significant staff turnover, particularly at the junior researcher...
Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, writes about staff training needs to address staff turnover, particularly at the junior researcher level and among lower level support staff and, in some...
Simply put, the full cost of a research project rightfully includes a share of the overall non–project specific costs needed to operate the organization as a sustainable...
Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, writes about think tanks' indirect costs and how sponsors are often reluctant to pay for them as part of their grant funding....
There are indications of CV padding being a significant problem, including for positions requiring graduate degrees. Although statistically reliable evidence is absent,...
Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, and Tatiana Polidi, Executive Director of the Institute for Urban Economics in Moscow, write about good practices in credential...
Over the past 25 years I have had substantial interaction with a couple dozen think tanks on various administrative questions, and the topic of archiving key products...