Index

A

Academic databases, 115

Acquisition costs, 119

Action planning, 40

Action plans, 73–76

Analytics, vi

Appirio, 87–88

Application data, 81

Application objectives, 15–16

Assessment(s)

needs-based. See Needs assessment of organizational climate for achieving results, 153

readiness, 3

Assessment center method, 73

Attitude surveys, 63

Attributes, 22

Audience

communication of program results to, 139–140, 142, 149

examples of, 149

progress reporting for, 160

B

Bad news, 159

Balanced Scorecard, 4

Baseline

building of process for, 25

data collection on, 22, 25

lack of, 23–25

post-then-pre assessment for creating, 24

Behaviorally anchored numerical scale, 69

Benefit-cost ratio (BCR), 123

Block, Peter, 137

Bloom’s Taxonomy, 14–15

Brainstorming, 20 ...

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