Cornerstones of Impact Management: How to Plan, Implement, Assess, and Understand Factors for Success

Dowd, Anne-maree (Editor)/ Keenan, Thomas (Editor)/ Graham, Kathryn (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1041125151 / ISBN 13: 9781041125150

Published by Routledge, 2025

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354 pages. 9.68x6.87x9.61 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cornerstones of Impact Management: How to Plan, Implement, Assess, and Understand Factors for Success
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1041125151
• ISBN 13: 9781041125150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.75 kilograms

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Synopsis

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 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.

About the Author

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.