Can Measures Change the World?

Christopher D. Nelson, Anita Chandra, Carolyn Miller

ResearchPosted on rand.org Aug 21, 2020Published in: Stanford Social Innovation Review (Winter 2018)

Our ability to track and report all sorts of things is growing by the day, resulting in a proliferation of measures—the percentage of children attending preschool, the cost of housing, access to mental health services, to name just a few. It's time that organizations begin to focus just as much effort on understanding how those measures can be more effectively used to change complex social systems.

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  • Copyright: Leland Stanford Jr. University
  • Publisher: Stanford Social Innovation Review
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2018
  • Pages: 7
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/pubs
  • Document Number: EP-68250

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