Managing consultants on think tank research projects
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,...
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Introducing the Best Practice Series
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...
Donors’ best financial practice in granting to think tanks
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...
Structuring off-site staff trainings
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...
Structuring off-site staff trainings
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...
Donors’ best financial practice in granting to think tanks
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...
Donors’ best financial practice in granting to think tanks
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....
Ensuring you are hiring qualified research staff: Guarding against CV padding
There are indications of CV padding being a significant problem, including for positions requiring graduate degrees. Although statistically reliable evidence is absent,...
Ensuring you are hiring qualified research staff: Guarding against CV padding
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...
Good think tank practices for archiving research projects
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...
Good think tank practices for archiving research projects
Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, writes on the topic of archiving key products and background materials for research projects. Based on discussions with those with...
The Ideas Industry by Daniel W. Drezner (part 2)
How are think tanks responding to a changing environment? Part 1 of this article set out definitions of three important terms and then reviewed developments in the policy community and the...