Invited inter-governmental conference paper delivered in China 2004 which examined the insights gained from learning about the role of evaluation in the strategic planning process from three analogies: visioning, weaving and attaining. As we learn from each analogy we can see the lessons in some...

Program evaluation is often conducted by external experts, and a budget is usually allocated for such external evaluation. But, in the 23 years of experience of the author, many problems emerge with a reliance on only external evaluation. One of the problems is that the funds have not been...

MBA students have invested heavily in their education and learning as a basis for their career development. How are MBA programs preparing them for industrial disruption? Most of ‘assurance of learning’ processes and literature are academically driven and based on past teaching methods. This...

This paper reports on the outcomes of a two year project which implemented and researched the effectiveness of Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) as a tool for measuring individual goal setting and attainment for children with a vision impairment aged from birth to 5 years of age. These children were...

A response to Smith′s (1992) attempt (in AAAJ , Vol. 5 No. 1, 1992) to address the difficulties in performance auditing and production function modelling in public sector management (arguing that regression analysis is an inadequate approach for value‐for‐money auditors, and is...