Moving from the transactional to the relational
NEWS Moving from the transactional to the relational (Finegood interviewed by Montague 2025) Share Link https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/NmJQZtuDtXaVH0AZDigR6lb7Nsrnuma6csqGGT84yChsyDL31ufXJQ118qB8uOwR.EQ85ob893tPoe_Vb Passcode: 2.V&+BRw
Reach, Engagement, Trust and Influence Networks (RETaIN) as core results framing for a future world: Valuing the relational over the transactional to improve system resilience and sustained impact
Reach, Engagement, Trust and Influence Networks (RETaIN) as core results framing for a future world: Valuing the relational over the transactional to improve system resilience and sustained impact S. Montague April 14, 2025 Events in all domains (health, environment, economics, culture & society) over the past decades have shown that framing results in terms of […]
Rethinking Core Performance Principles, Results and Measures: Moving from a Transactional to a Relational focus through a ‘Made in Canada’ Value System
Rethinking Core Performance Principles, Results and Measures: Moving from a Transactional to a Relational focus through a ‘Made in Canada’ Value System Visit the April 29 Summit at https://ppx.ca/new-rbm-summit-2025 Rethinking Core Performance Principles, Results and Measures: Moving from a Transactional to a Relational focus through a ‘Made in Canada’ Value System Events in various domains […]
Just out: 2019 Special Edition of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation
The new special edition of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation highlights the implementation ‘fit’ in theory of change as well as actor based results logic (& theory). Check out both articles here on the Canadian Evaluation Society website.
Fall 2018 Updates
In the works – A knowledge take-up and use performance measurement tool. For an update – ask us. 2. The Fall 2018 European Evaluation Society – in Thessaloniki Greece: Great location, great content. For more on the content ask us. 3. Can you meaningfully target results in public administration? (hint: Yes you can […]
A Time For Key Principles: What the UN has learned
S. Montague, December 2017 This year in the circles we have been working in there has been a strong emphasis on implementing the Canadian Results Policy of 2016. The policy has a few new tracking (tagging) of data elements to it and some structural requirements that are slightly new – but otherwise it can be […]
2016 in Review – and we thought last year was in turmoil!
I guess I am an analyst at heart. I always find it interesting to look back at what one observed at a certain point in time and then to see what has happened since. This year I am going to do that explicitly by revisiting observations we/I made about last year which were really sort […]
How a Configurational Contextual Model ‘Trumped’ the Conventional Forecasters: Four I’s Proved to be Powerful Predictors in the 2016 Presidential Election
by Steve Montague Groups like Pollyvote and Real Clear have been doing a fair bit of ex poste diagnosis of which models and approaches did worse than others in failing to predict the 2016 Donald Trump US Presidential election victory. This article will not rehash those arguments other than to note that all sources have […]
Impact Pathways for Science Initiatives Released
A well received report describing science impact pathways was recently noted by an NRC official at the November 7th Science-based Organization public forum. The report Study of Large Scale Research Infrastructure Impact Assessment was co-authored by PMN partner Steve Montague and associate Gretchen Jordan. The full report has just been released for public access. Email […]
Presentation by Steve Montague and Bridgette Dillon at the 12th European Evaluation Society Biennial Conference 2016
The presentation by Steve Montague and Bridgette Dillon on Developing Useful Programme Theories for Complex Interventions formed a logical flow and reinforced each other so as to provide the perspectives of an experienced commissioner of evaluations and that of an experienced practitioner leading evaluation study teams. Audience members were encouraged to interactively participate with the presenters at […]