This paper by Dan Duncan, Senior Vice President, United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona shows the powerful ways in which RBA and Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) methods can be used together. ABCD is one of many other bodies of work that fit well with RBA/OBA. Another example is the work of Jim Collins in “Good to Great.” Check …
Cutting budgets with results based accountability
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Measures are Categorized on the Basis of What Question they Answer
Email: September 10, 2009 7:20 AM I found it an immensely useful seminar and I left feeling most excited about RBA and its potential in a NZ social service context. I have had the privilege of presenting it a number of times. But … alas … I seem to have encountered a bit of a hitch. My colleagues and I can’t …
Over 100 RBA practitioners from across the State gathered in Hartford to share experiences implementing RBA
Over 100 RBA practitioners from across the State gathered in Hartford to share experiences implementing RBA. The conference was sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and The Charter Oak Group, LLC and attracted participants from state agencies, communities, and philanthropies. Mark Friedman gave the keynote address, and a panel of four legislative leaders talked about how the legislature’s five-year …
Parody of a Logic Model
This is very funny and I wish I knew who created it. A paper is in the works on “The 5 Things Wrong with Logic Models (and why everyone hates them).” Here’s a preview: 1) They start in the wrong place with means not ends. 2) They restrict rather than expand people’s thinking. 3) They assume life is linear and …
Creating Results Culture Change
People talk about culture change the way they talk about magic. We know this wonderful transformation is needed and will somehow happen, but we’re not sure how. Let’s take a shot at a definition of organizational culture. Organizational culture is the range of accepted norms of for what people in an organization think and how they act. An organization might …
Measuring the Success of Population Level Strategies
Email: Hi Mark, As someone who helps manage the overall strategic planning process within a UK local government context (children’s services), I am currently grappling with what you have called ‘the wrong question’. This is in the context of trying to support the establishment of an ‘in-house’ funder/contractor relationship in line with the drive for UK local government to become, first …
Next Generation Contracting – Key Provisions
People have been asking me for more detail on what I mean by “next generation” contacting (or commissioning as it is sometimes called in the UK). Here are some additional thoughts. I welcome your comments and suggestions. Next generation contracts will have three essential provisions, and an optional fourth. Provision 1 (Most important performance measures) and 2 (Continuous improvement process) …
RBA/OBA Ends to Means Star Exercise
A fun way to teach the concept of ends vs. means. Download the presentation here.
Results based accountability 101 active (2009) Slides
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