Dear Derek,
Good post. Especially interesting is you moving UN to evidence-based
program design. I'm currently involved here in a small evidence-based
research project for the Australian government to improve program design in
one particular area. In this arena, the significant paradigm shift is from
'outputs' to 'outcomes' in the program logic evaluation.
Let me think about your proposal for a couple of days. I'd also like to
reflect on what you wrote about 'meanings' within and across social systems;
and situational dynamics.
Looking forward to reading your paper. Really enjoyed your other material
on the Academia website.
All the best,
Terry
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Sent: Tuesday, 5 June 2012 3:50 PM
To: Dr Terence Love
Subject: Re: Design thinking
I like your questions, or list, on what is not being researched - or at
least is being widely neglected vis-a-vis the potential value of answering
those questions. They imply a research agenda. How about you establish one?
A small event or some other mechanism that brings people together around
shared questions, and then establishes benchmarks for making progress
towards having them answered? Then apply for a grant to advance the agenda?
Life is short. Let's make progress!
I only want to comment on E - "The best strategy so far ."
I think you've jumped in the right direction and I'm very interested in your
thoughts, but it feels you've soared over a lilly pad or two. To abstract
from this just a bit, you're asking what might anchor a design in valid
claims about the world, so that the design - should it be implemented - has
the greatest possibility or likelihood of success.
On this subject, Lisa Rudnick and I will be posting our new paper soon on
"evidence-based program design", which we wrote for an Inter-agency working
group at the UN. People are trying to figure out what it means to move from
opinion-based decision making to evidence-based design for programming.
We've provided a conceptual framework for this, and this year, UNIDIR, The
Policy Lab and livework (Norway) will be working with UN field teams to help
build the user-centered tools necessary to advance that conceptual framework
in an operational space.
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