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Where Does Knowledge Get Stuck?

What best describes your role?

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A

Founder / CEO / Executive Director

B

Research / Knowledge leadership

C

Communications / Influence

D

Strategy / Programme leadership

E

MEL / Impact / Learning

F

Policy / Advocacy

G

Other

H

Other

Think about an important piece of research, evidence or programme learning your organisation produced recently. What happened afterwards?

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A

It was used by our team to make decisions or improve our work

B

It reached the people / organisations we wanted it to reach

C

It was shared, but we don't know how much it was actually used

D

It mostly stayed within our organisation or with funders

E

It became another report/document, but didn't go much further

F

We haven't really tracked what happened

G

Other

When this happens, what is the biggest consequence for your organisation?

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A

We miss opportunities to improve programmes or decisions

B

Research/evidence has less influence than it could

C

Teams spend time searching, compiling or repeating work

D

Leadership doesn't have a clear picture of what we're learning

E

We miss opportunities to influence policy, funders or stakeholders

F

Important organisational knowledge gets lost

G

There isn't a significant consequence

H

Other

What is making this harder or more important for your organisation today?

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A

More research, data and information than before

B

More programmes, teams or geographies

C

The external environment is changing faster

D

Need to make decisions faster

E

Need to reach more decision-makers / audiences

F

Limited internal capacity

G

AI is changing how organisations work with information

H

Nothing significant has changed

I

Other

What does your organisation currently invest in to solve this kind of problem? (Select all that apply.)

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Internal staff / dedicated team

Research / knowledge-management systems

Communications / dissemination

External consultants or specialist partners

Technology / software

AI tools or AI implementation

Training / capacity building

We don't currently invest specifically in this

Other

If you could improve ONE thing, which would create the most value for your organisation?

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A

Leadership could quickly understand what the organisation is learning

B

Teams could find and reuse existing knowledge much faster

C

Research and evidence would influence more decisions

D

Important knowledge would reach the right people faster

E

We could identify important external changes earlier

F

We could connect learning across programmes and teams

G

We could get more value from the research and evidence we're already producing

H

Something else