In my 20-plus years working in the nonprofit world, one of the most common mistakes I’ve seen nonprofits make is measuring activities instead of outcomes. I understand why: Measuring activities is ...

This article is the third part in a series of posts on measuring what matters in organizations: the shift from outputs to outcomes. As a result of epochal shift of power in the marketplace from seller ...

In my last post, I wrote about why it’s important for nonprofits to measure outcomes rather than activities. I was excited to see that the post sparked a discussion, but I also noticed that folks were ...

DETROIT – Five Southeast Michigan organizations that serve boys and men of color received support to evaluate their impact thanks to funding made available through the Community Foundation and the ...

A new systematic historical and meta-analytic review published in the Journal of Affective Disorders found inconsistent and ...

With the debut of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Health Insurance Marketplaces on October 1 st, Americans are starting to use these new online markets to shop for and purchase affordable insurance ...

When we think about “outcomes” -- or how things turn out -- for most young adults we usually consider things like employment, higher education, living on their own, and becoming more independent from ...

Fred D. Lublin, MD, FAAN, FANA: The major outcome measures in MS [multiple sclerosis] clinical trials are relapse rate reduction. And that’s the most common metric used for pivotal studies, studies ...

Looking to the future, ambulatory surgery centers must find a way to securing patient volume and payment as the healthcare industry undergoes a significant transformation, according to Fred Davis, MD, ...

One of the most important areas of ad measurement today is assessing the impact of a campaign on business outcomes. The need to understand with accuracy and consistency whether an ad campaign has ...

A newly published paper from Rhode Island Hospital reports that Web-based assessments for outcome measurements of patients in treatment for depression are valid and reliable. The findings indicate ...

We live now in the age of customer capitalism.[1] The era of shareholder capitalism, i.e. pushing products and services at customers, of tweaking the supply chain, of parsing and manufacturing demand, ...