Fooled by Randomness

The book Fooled by Randomness is not new. But, since Denise and I discussed randomness, I thought it would be nice to give a quick recap of the book, in order to the discussion up to speed. The key message in the book comes down to this. ‘Randomness plays a bigger part in our lives then [...]

Appraising 'evidence-based' books?

The recent post by Tracy Allison Altman showed that the title of a book is often misleading. She showed that the word ‘evidence-based’ becomes meaningless if three books with this term in the title deal with totally different subjects. It appears that the ‘evidence-based approach’ starts to become the flavor of the month. Just yesterday [...]

What more evidence do you need?

Should Sally slowly build her case for evidence-based management or does she need to take a more aggressive approach?

This is a cross post from an earlier contribution to the Harvard Business Review blog in March 2010, in anticipation of a fictional case study on evidence-based management in health care, with expert commentaries.

Sally Randolph [...]

Post graduate course on evidence-based management

We now have course material from the post graduate course on evidence-based management available for you to use in your own classrooms or at work. The course has been designed by Eric Barends from the Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam. To download the course material, please click here.

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Draft chapters of the upcoming Handbook available

For all practitioners who can’t wait to read the new handbook on Evidence-based Management, there is good news. The draft chapters (which are currently available), can be downloaded for review on this site. We welcome suggestions and comments, which you can leave in the mail form at the bottom of the page. The draft versions [...]

PDW Evidence-based management great success

Yesterday the first PDW (Professional Development Workshop) on Evidence-Based Management as a new way to teaching the practice of management was held at the annual Academy of Management. Judging from the amount of people who showed up (almost 50) and the novelty of the topic, we think it was a huge success. In the audience [...]