Systems Evaluation Services
Dr Lewis Atkinson Global Director in the Haines Centre for Strategic Management Ltd ACN 631 884 798. Trading as the systems thinking approach.
He is an accredited Strategic Management trainer and facilitator working in the areas of systems thinking, social enterprise, research, innovation. Also a member of the Australian Evaluation Society (see trainer & consultants listing here) and part of the Ian Potter Foundation Evaluation Pool IPF pool. For resume, academic profiles and professional biography http://au.linkedin.com/in/leweatkinson.
See his latest publication Is this strategy working? Does turning this dial move that needle?
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Evaluation & Impact Services include:
Applied Systems Thinking & Evaluation Theory – see AES 2019 Conference Workshop https://conference2019.aes.asn.au/index.php/the-conference/conference-workshop-program/pre-conference-sunday-program#m9
Facilitation of developmental & evaluation and co-design of Theory Of Change (TOC) – see AES 2019 PD program – https://www.aes.asn.au/events-archive-qld/1529-workshop-facilitation-skills-for-evaluators-envision-evaluate-examine-engineer-execute-brisbane-25-february-2019.html
Results based accountability complex systems evaluations – link to the AES 2018 Launceston conference paper https://www.aes.asn.au/images/stories/files/conferences/2018/31AtkinsonLewis.pdf
Bespoke rubrics and performance measurement frameworks to aid strategic decision-making – Case study 4_Department of Agriculture and Food WA,
Impact measurement frameworks and reporting – PJF Impact 2024 and
Organisation-wide and sector-wide MEL frameworks – see a list of published works:
Enhancing product integrity ISBN 97817419116
Maintaining and liberalising access to world meat markets ISBN 9781741911701
Achieving consistent eating quality ISBN 9781741919998
Enhancing the nutritional reputation of red meat ISBN 9781741913026
Increasing cost efficiency & productivity – on-farm (beef) ISBN 9781741913507
Improving industry and market information ISBN 9781741913828
Ensuring sustainability ISBN 97817419138285471
Aggressive promotion of Australian beef in Japan and Korea ISBN 9781741916546
Developing new markets and products ISBN 9781741919073
Aggressive promotion in the domestic market (beef) ISBN 9781741919998
Link for an overview of the MLA Program of Evaluation HERE
Link for work facilitated with all of the RDCs HERE to create a collective evaluation framework for impact assessment and reporting
Systems Thinking News
November 2019 – Click HERE to download a copy of the newsletter
January 2020 – Click HERE to download a copy of the newsletter
April 2020 – Click HERE to download a copy of the newsletter and also see a copy of the presentation for COVID-19 and Systems Thinking Part#1 Boundaries HERE and download paper submitted to JEM HERE
June 2020 – Click HERE to download a copy of the newsletter also see brochure HERE and a copy of the presentation for COVID-19 and Systems Thinking Part #2 Feedback Loops HERE
July 2020 – Click to download paper submitted to JEM HERE and also see brochure HERE and a copy of the presentation for COVID-19 and Systems Thinking Part #3 Cascading Failures HERE
August 2020 – See brochure HERE and a copy of the presentation for COVID-19 and Systems Thinking Part #4 Reflex Arcs HERE
September 2020 – EvalFest Club “open space” session guides: Sample Runsheet HERE; Sample Intro presentation HERE; Sample TECH HOST guide HERE
October 2020 – Hack-the-system session Link to pre-work paper: Lessons learned in evaluating the infrastructure of a Centre for Translational Research HERE
March 2021 – Click HERE to download a copy of the newsletter
November 2021 – Systems Evaluation Theory – Practice & Implementation (Online 17 + 24 November 2021) – Download SET Worksheet HERE
