New paper on analytical and adaptive capacities

Dec 21 2005

Praxis Paper 7: 'Building Analytical and Adaptive Capacities for Organisational Effectiveness'

By Mia Sorgenfrei and Rebecca Wrigley

This paper suggests that by helping civil society organisations to understand and strengthen analytical and adaptive capacities, we may help them increase their effectiveness. The authors offer a cross-disciplinary review of current thinking about analytical and adaptive capacity, drawing on fields such as organisational learning and change, strategic management, systems thinking and complexity theory. The paper proposes practical considerations which may guide future efforts to develop the analytical and adaptive capacities of CSOs.

Download the paper here.