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 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.

Anne-Maree Dowd 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. She holds a PhD in Organisational Behaviour from the University of Queensland.

Thomas Keenan is the director of Tractuum, an impact management consultancy based in Brisbane, Queensland. He led the planning and evaluation activities of the CSIRO Impact Team from 2016-2019. He has over 15 years’ experience as both a practitioner and researcher with the field of business management and has been engaged as an executive leader within, and a consultant to, national for-profit and not-for-profit SMEs, as well as government agencies and private corporations.

Kathryn Graham is the Executive Director of Performance Management and Evaluation at Alberta Innovates, a Canadian-based publicly-funded provincial health research and innovation organization. She has over 25 years of strategic evaluation experience in health care, and health research and innovation R(&I). Her expertise is in developing performance management, evaluation, impact strategies, and implementing assessment frameworks for complex systems and organizations. She and her team successfully implemented the CAHS (2009) health research impact framework and was instrumental in its application nationally and internationally. Kathryn was also one of the founders of https: //www.theinternationalschoolonria.com/