Strategic planning: it’s just as much about the present as the future
Over the last seven years, I’ve been involved in numerous workshops helping think tanks do strategic planning for policy engagement. But I’ve found that, after the...
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Outcome Mapping: Building learning and reflection into development programs
Outcome Mapping recognizes that development is essentially about people relating to each other and their environment. The originality of this approach lies in its shift away from assessing...
An essential guide to SWOT Analysis
SWOT analysis is a methodological tool designed to help workers and companies optimize performance, maximize potential, manage competition, and minimize risk. SWOT is about making better decisions, both large and...
Learning While Doing: A 12-Step Program for Policy Change
This essay by CGD director of communications and policy Lawrence MacDonald and senior fellow and vice president for programs and operations Ruth Levine describes a variety of approaches and...
Renewing the Work Program: the Managing Think Tanks series
Just like having an efficient board of directors, setting an agenda is important for effective and efficient work in a think tank. Think tankers must not forget, however,...
Strategic Plans: A simple version
I get asked about strategic plans quite a bit. Several think tanks, either on their own accord or pressured by their funders, are busy developing a strategic plan. I've come across two broad types of plans: ...
Force Field Analysis: A cheaper and more useful alternative to ROI for a think tank
Last week I attended a meeting of members of the Latin American Initiative for Public Policy Research (ILAIPP) or Iniciativa Latinoamericana de Investigación para las Políticas Públicas,...
Advice to Think Tank Startup: do not do it alone
Recently I was in touch with a former colleague who is setting up a think tank after successful service in government. He said that the idea behind his new think tank was “to do public...
ODI’s award-winning online strategy explained
The ODI digital strategy, which I first outlined in a series of blogs for onthinktanks.org, was awarded Online Strategy of the Year 2012 at the prestigious Digital Communications Awards,...
Labels, frameworks and tools: do they stop us from thinking?
An interesting discussion about labels and frameworks has been going on in the EBPDN, that I think is worth blogging about. A bit of the background: an EBPDN member...
RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach: more useful when used to plan the whole policy research initiative
(Please note that in this post I am referring to policy research initiatives or programmes: initiatives that have explicit policy influencing objectives.) The RAPID Outcome Mapping...
OM community webinar: Systems Concepts and Outcome Mapping
Last week the Outcome Mapping Learning Community hosted the third OM community webinar: Systems Concepts and Outcome Mapping. We were fortunate enough to have Richard...
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