The definitive resource for understanding and optimising the impact of your ecosystem, organisation, program or team.
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 processes 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 you're 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.
"Cornerstones of Impact Management is written by impact practitioners for anyone interested in societal impacts of research. It covers foundations such as pathways to impact and planning for impact. Since planning is needed for effective assessment and evaluation, readers get a deep dive into those topics which are always in demand. And it introduces some emerging areas of impact including ethics of impact and artificial intelligence. Each chapter has tips, a chapter summary and real life examples of successful impact practices. All this with contributors from Australia, Catalonia, UK, Denmark, Canada and USA. ... A must-read book on impact." -- David J. Phipps Assistant Vice-President, Research Strategy & Impact, York University
Anne-Maree Dowd PhD is the Executive Manager of Performance and Evaluation at Australia’s 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.
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