All CurryCorp services and products are designed to facilitate competence building and knowledge transfer. For that reason collaborative processes are preferred for the design and conduct of projects.
A broad range of techniques and strategies are used in organizational analysis, evaluation of performance, products, programmes or personnel. Change facilitation includes board and staff development, alternative futures definition, choice making and planning supports. Monitoring, coaching, and conflict resolution are supplied to assist change implementation.
Feasibility/ Prefeasibility Services:
- strategic audits: organizations, personnel, operations, outcomes, context
- policy analysis: cost-benefit likelihoods, anticipated and unanticipated outcomes exploration, implementation planning
- meta-analyses and synthesis reports
- client-specific research and evaluation
- strategic information identification, collection, strategic planning and management support
- social marketing and social research
- environmental scanning and trend analysis
- economic appraisal and forecasting
- public consultation management, public involvement in planning, dispute resolution
- curriculum analysis
- development of standards and outcome measures; relevant training and assessment
- needs assessment planning, data collection and analysis
- model building and testing
Program Development/ Planning:
- human resource planning, development and quality assurance systems
- improvement planning and change support
- planning and facilitation for negotiation and conflict management
- research design, data collection, analysis, interpretation and critique
- professional regulatory issues: competence, performance assessment and improvement strategies, complaints investigation and alternative resolution mechanisms
- board and senior staff development
- facilitation for improvement
- faculty/organizational development
- group consensus facilitation
- workshops for problem-solving or training
Evaluation:
- performance, personnel, policy, product, program, proposal
- institutional and organizational (governance, operations, products and services)
- intra and interdisciplinary evaluation
- meta-evaluation
Futures Planning:
- getting past reactivity to proactivity: preparing the organization to consider alternative futures
- foresight analysis: creating alternative visions of the future
- identify scope, range and power of change factors
- identify the key drivers and pivot points
- identify the drivers that can be influenced
- explore alternate possible futures:
- articulate and choose most likely set;
- seek consensus on preference and
- identify price (resource) points related to achieving that preference.
- compile information for leadership decision making,
- devise strategy to implement decisions