Category Archives: Measurement

What Gets Measured…

Posted on April 25, 2022 by julianstodd

There’s a common expression and management dogma that ‘what gets measured gets done’, which may well be true – but we should not conflate that with thinking that what gets done is what needs to be done, nor that what … Continue reading →

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Learning Science: The Problem With Data, And How You Can Measure Anything

Posted on September 4, 2019 by julianstodd

Today i am #WorkingOutLoud, sharing a section of the writing on Learning Science from the Modern Learning Capability Programme. These three pieces discuss qualitative and quantitative data, and how you can measure anything. This is early stage work, shared out … Continue reading →

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The Post Hoc Rationalisation Fallacy

Posted on October 16, 2017 by julianstodd

I suspect it’s true that many organisations are highly successful almost despite everything that they do in the formal space to make themselves so. They are successful not because of hierarchy, rules, systems, or control, but rather because they are … Continue reading →

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How do you measure the return on investment (ROI) for social learning?

Posted on October 17, 2012 by julianstodd

Just because something’s hard, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it. Today i want to address the question of how can we measure the return on investment (ROI) in social learning? Let’s imagine that we’ve delivered a project into the business … Continue reading →

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What’s the point of a pilot? How to iterate learning to success.

Posted on October 19, 2011 by julianstodd

Normally this question has an easy answer: to transport me to either (a) the French mountains or (b) a cheap european weekend away. In this case though, i mean a different pilot. The type that we talk about a lot, … Continue reading →

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How influential are you in the social media space? What do we mean by ‘success’?

Posted on August 2, 2011 by julianstodd

An excellent article today around tools that measure your social influence (or at least, around tools that measure activity, which, i guess, can correlate with influence…). Mike Johansson has provided a concise summary of a sites that offer some measure … Continue reading →

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Taking bold steps: how we have to create disturbance to change behaviour

Posted on May 13, 2011 by julianstodd

You can’t change behaviours without creating disturbance. If people are happy with how they do things now, they are unlikely to change. Part of training is the process of disturbing them from their current perspective and helping them to chart … Continue reading →

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