“Let's Digitally Transform!”
Yes, but where do I begin...
Begin with the Impact-First Conference and walk away with the practical guidelines and concrete steps to gauge and improve how you use data as part of your organization's digital transformation journey.
Join fellow program managers, digital transformation leads, M&E specialists, and data management experts this spring in a conversation around the practical challenges of implementing a digital transformation strategy through a practical impact-focused lens. Workshop with peers in the humanitarian, public health, and development sectors to evaluate and identify Impact outcomes in data management and strategize how to implement best practices into your organization’s digital transformation.
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Transform your organization with a practical, intuitive framework to translate your data into insights and stories to help prove impact and improve data practices.
“The Framework we were led through provided us with a practical set of principles, good practices, and tools that we could use with our digital leads at HQ and with our program managers at country level to ensure the successful adoption of new technologies and ways of managing data.”
- Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor at INGO working in 30 countries
The Impact-First Framework for Digital Transformation
Philosophy
A set of guiding principles to understand and craft an organization-specific digital transformation, from any baseline, in order to improve the speed and quality that Impact is delivered.
Methodology
A fundamental approach for implementing strategic interventions along an organization’s data management practice to facilitate overall impact growth.
Decision Model
An adaptive and evidence-based learning tool to gauge and evaluate challenges within an organization or program’s data management to reveal strategic areas and solutions for improvement.
Mission
Impact-First is a systematic approach to digitally transforming an organization. It is used to identify and improve tangible outcomes in your data systems like data quality, the sustainability of a given approach, its fitness or whether its fit-for-purpose, and the degree to which the system delivers accountability. Impact-First is a continually iterative framework that recognizes digital transformation as an evolving process, not an end state. As such, it is meant to evolve, and refine itself as experts in multiple fields systematically gather observations and continue to inform it.
Control Knobs
Control Knobs are the general features in a data management system that organizations can adjust to improve performance. These are the inputs whose modification in the data life cycle will alter one or several aspects of the digital transformation journey. Any targeted adjustment to a Control Knob is defined as an intervention.
Outcomes
Outcomes are organized into four groups based on their similarities and interconnectedness. These four Outcome Areas are based on sector best practices and represent the central principles and desirable outcomes of the Impact-First Framework. These outcomes are determined by Control Knobs, and modified by interventions.
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Meet Members of the Team
A strong belief in the power of good data to save lives runs through the heart of Impact-First. The Impact-First Team represents those working at the cutting edge of technological innovation and humanitarian and development work. As field practitioners and former Program Managers, the Team has spent countless hours on the ground observing and implementing transformative digital strategies within NGOs, UN agencies and donors. Meet them here and watch this space for additions to the Agenda Steering Committee.
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