Strategic Learning & Evaluation

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Title: What is strategic learning and how do you develop an organizational culture that encourages it? Author: John A. Healy Type: Journal article Focus: Knowledge Management, Evaluation, Communications Date: 2005 Publisher: Harvard Family Research Project Download: Read online at HFRP website

In this short article from Harvard Family Research Project's evaluation periodical, The Evaluation Exchange, John A. Healy, Director of Strategic Learning and Evaluation at The Atlantic Philanthropies, shares his organisation's strategies for learning from foundation and grantee experiences and disseminating that learning.

Among the suggestions which Healy expands upon in the article:

• Position evaluation as a resource linked to strategy
• Share accountability, acknowledge risk, and reward adaptive learning
• Create space and structure for learning
• Focus on different levels of learning