Cornerstones of Impact Management
How to Plan, Implement, Assess and Understand Factors for Success
Cornerstones of Impact Management is a comprehensive and practical guide to the key foundations of impact. 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 enhancing 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.
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 the Executive Director of the Impact Action Lab at Alberta Innovates, a Canadian research and innovation agency. She has over 25 years of experience in implementing strategic performance management and continuous quality improvement systems across multiple organisations and sectors.
