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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not.

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The leaning rail is the new bench. Not every butt is happy about it

Fast Company Tech

Construction workers for New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority were photographed removing a bench on the station’s platform and replacing it with a curving metal structure. There are four leaning bars at West 4 St and we’ll evaluate how they work before deciding whether to expand, she explains via email.

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It’s Time for Nonprofits to Invest in True Digital Transformation

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The Digital Product Mix A definition of the digital products—websites, apps, services—that best address audience needs and promise the greatest, most scalable impact toward your goals. Your digital product mix should also identify where and how to eliminate duplicative, competing, or poorly performing products.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who decides what is measured?

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The most innovative architecture companies for 2025

Fast Company Tech

Software giant Autodesk created Total Carbon Analysis for Architects, a digital tool that makes the evaluation of embodied and operational carbon far simpler and more intuitive than it had been for most designers. The buildings unusual shape was determined largely by how the public would experience it. billion in revenue.

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Beyond the Rainbow—Build a Diverse Board of Independent Thinkers

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They should be visionaries who chart the direction, evaluate options, and are prepared to challenge ideas they feel are not in the association’s best interests. From the National Bureau of Economic Research—companies with more diverse workforces are more likely to innovate and bring new products to market.

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Empowering Changemakers: A Framework For Public Good Tech

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But research ([link] tells us the training, configuration, and resources necessary to ensure products can be used in a nonprofit environment also serve as persistent hurdles in this arena. Thinking about a framework is, so far, based on the structure defined in Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schanks Power to the Public ([link].

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