Evidence-based management
Evidence-based management ( Engl . Evidence: proof, proof, note) is an upcoming from America mindset that based on the evidence-based medicine that, in particular management decisions best possible by the explicit use be scientific if possible empirical methods and findings made .
approach
Evidence-based management can best be translated with evidence-based corporate management and advocates anchoring management practices in social and behavioral findings and viewing formal reviews and evaluations of actions or events as a mandatory basis for further action.
Effectiveness check
In practice, data collection is often difficult, particularly due to the lack of data. In practice, one feasible way is to document scientific results through qualitative observations and to support them through peer reviews and available data.
Or you can set up a data store in a company in which case studies are collected in a standardized form (initial situation, goal, framework conditions, reason for the procedure, results, lessons learned).
In any case, it is important to increase the transparency regarding the reasons and assumptions for decisions in order to gain valid knowledge in the company based on this. This fact-based evaluation of change processes can be used as a structured learning process for the entire organization.
literature
- Felix C. Brodbeck: Evidence-based (change) management (EbM) ; in Organizational Development 01/08, pp. 4-9.
- Jeffrey Pfeffer: Jeffrey Pfeffer on Evidence-Based Management and OE. A conversation via email (bilingual, German and similar); in: Organizational Development 1/08, pp. 10–15
- Jeffrey Pfeffer / Robert Sutton: Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense. Profiting From Evidence-Based Management , Harvard Business Press 2006, ISBN 1-591-39862-2 .
- Jeffrey Pfeffer / Robert Sutton: The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action , Harvard Business School Press 2000, ISBN 1-578-51124-0 .