by David Apgar | Dec 11, 2015 | Assumption Testing, GoalScreen
Three myths about the impact Mark Zuckerberg is seeking As self-professed impact experts line up to advise the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative – the $45B LLC just announced by the Facebook founder – it may be worth debunking three myths about impact. The Optimist’s Myth:...
by David Apgar | Nov 17, 2015 | GoalScreen
Impact scorecards help you improve business outcomes by measuring the effectiveness of your strategy as well as execution. After all, it doesn’t matter how well you execute a strategy if it’s the wrong strategy for hitting your goals. The secret is to test assumptions...
by David Apgar | Oct 28, 2015 | Assumption Testing, GoalScreen
What if the qualities of mind needed by successful entrepreneurs conflicted with one another? Research on best performance-management practices at the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) and program management experience at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) both...
by David Apgar | Oct 14, 2015 | Assumption Testing, GoalScreen, Impact Scorecards
For this attendee, the strongest impression of the SoCap15 conference for impact investors last week in San Francisco was about investor diversity. There were plenty of impact investors looking for energy, health, and data startups and boasting about exits....
by David Apgar | Sep 20, 2013 | GoalScreen
This paper argues US manufacturers still fail to identify metrics that predict performance results despite two decades of intensive investment in data-mining applications because indicators with the power to predict complex results must have high information content...
