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.
Table of Content
Foreword
Acknowledgement of contributors
Preface
Introduction: The foundations of impact
Cornerstone 1: Establish the context for impact
Chapter 1: Impact by design
Chapter 2: Inspiring and fostering a positive impact culture
Chapter 3: Managing your culture shift
Chapter 4: Mitigating risks to impact
Cornerstone 2: Plan for impact
Chapter 5: Integrated impact planning approaches and processes
Chapter 6: Communication and engagement at the planning stage
Chapter 7: Risks at the planning stage
Cornerstone 3: Implement, scale and assess impact
Chapter 8: Monitoring progress and risk
Chapter 9: Why and when to undertake impact evaluation
Chapter 10: Impact evaluation principles and approaches
Chapter 11: The role of economics in assessing impact
Chapter 12: Assessing the value of impacts
Chapter 13: Quality assurance for impact assessments
Chapter 14: The art of making impact visible
Cornerstone 4: Future setting for impact
Chapter 15: Forecasting impact: Potential value from innovation
Chapter 16: What’s on the horizon for the impact field
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Kathryn Graham Ph D, 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.
