Article on the Brussels Seminar
http://www.itad.com/reflections-on-a-seminar-on-intervention-logic-and-contribution-analysis-at-the-ec/
How Not to Deal With Airline Overbooking: Why Equal isn’t Always Fair and Choice Mechanisms Work Better Than Command and Control
by Steve Montague My wife and I recently celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary with a trip to Europe. Everything went well until the last day when we went to Schiphol Airport to check in at KLM – Air France. We were shown as ‘standbys’ on our tickets. This was news to us. We had booked […]
How do we transform evaluation to be more strategically relevant and timely? Adopt a cumulative learning approach.
Recent evaluation leadership meetings in federal circles have suggested that the function needs to become more timely while also becoming more strategically useful to decision-makers. In my evaluation practice and teaching I have come to the conclusion that a greater emphasis on cumulative learning vis avis program archetypes is a good part of the answer […]
Dealing with Complex Causality and Small Data Sets? Try a Theory Based Approach and Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Theory based approaches (see https://www.pmn.net/wp-content/uploads/Theory-based-Approaches-for-Practical-Evaluation.pdf) lend themselves to a broad range of applications, including situations of high complexity and small numbers of cases. These are situations where both conceptually and practically, conventional statistical analysis just doesn’t fit (Befani, Lederman and Sager 2007). European evaluators (Befani, Lederman and Sager 2007, Sager and Lederman 2012) have recently […]
Course Update: Continued Strong Reviews for Measurement and Evaluation Course for Regulators
A recent delivery of R003 Performance Measurement and Evaluation for Regulators was March 24th and 25th at the Canada School of Public Service. We note that facilitator – PMN partner, Steve Montague continued to get exceptional reviews – in spite of the fact that the course is attracting a much broader group than regulators. The […]
Update: Our 2009 Prediction Re: Stimulus Funding Comes True
Globe and Mail November 24th The Great Infrastructure Boom That Wasn’t Tim Kiladze Report on Business reporter Tim Kiladze noted that analysts had suggested that investors were far too optimistic about the extent to which public stimulus funding would boost the fortunes and bottom lines of the construction industry. Kiladze quotes a market analyst as […]
Explaining The Funding Flow ‘Success’ of Some Stimulus Strategies Over Others – Steve Montague, August 2009
In the following article Steve Montague suggests why some policy instruments get implemented more quickly and consistently than others. See: Why Cash For Clunkers Works Better Than Company Bail-Outs or Infrastructure Spending: Reach, Roles and Relationships Count in Our Results Theories.
Reach in Logic Models and Spheres of Influence
A European conference related to performance planning and reporting in the public sector has noted two important contributions made by PMN and S Montague in a paper titled ‘Three Spheres of Performance Governance: Spanning The Boundaries From Single-Organizational Focus Towards A Partnership Network’. The two important insights were noted in a paper by Petri Uusikylä […]