Cornerstones of Impact Management is a comprehensive and practical guide to all aspects of impact management. It provides insights and expertise from leading practitioners from around the world, who have decades of experience in starting impact management from scratch, shifting cultures, developing systems and processes, and establishing leading-edge practices. It explores planning, implementing, scaling and assessing impact interventions, particularly within research and innovation, and policy, contexts.
Whether youre a seasoned impact practitioner or just starting your journey, Cornerstones of Impact Management is the definitive resource for understanding and optimising the impact contribution of your project, team, organisation or broader system of operation. It provides invaluable insights for researchers and research managers, policy makers, evaluators, knowledge mobilisers and quality improvement practitioners.
The demand for effective impact management is driving the need for skilled impact professionals. A how-to guide for impact management, this book provides readers with an overview of the science of impact and best practices in impact management.
Introduction: The foundations of impact
1. Impact by design
2. Inspiring
and fostering a positive impact culture
3. Managing your culture shift
4.
Mitigating risks to impact
5. Integrated impact planning approaches and
processes
6. Communication and engagement at the planning stage
7. Risks at
the planning stage
8. Monitoring progress and risk
9. Why and when to
undertake impact evaluation
10. Impact evaluation principles and approaches
11. The role of economics in assessing impact
12. Assessing the value of
impacts
13. Quality assurance for impact assessments
14. The art of making
impact visible
15. Forecasting impact: Potential value from innovation
16.
Whats on the horizon for the impact field
Anne-Maree Dowd PhD is the Executive Manager of Performance and Evaluation at Australias national science agency, CSIRO. She has led the impact agenda within CSIRO since 2014 and has been involved at the international level on research impact.
Thomas Keenan PhD is the director of Tractuum, an impact management consultancy based in Queensland, Australia. He led the planning and evaluation activities of the CSIRO Impact Team from 2016 to 2019 and continues to support the advancement of the CSIRO approach to impact management as a consultant.
Kathryn Graham PhD, FCAHS is a Professor of Research Impact Assessment at the University of Calgary, Canada, and was previously at Alberta Innovates. Her name is synonymous with advancing both the science and practice of impact. She has 30 years of experience in advising impact driven organisations on how to strategically design, measure, scale and maximise their impact performance.
