GEORGIA MANUFACTURING EXTENSION ALLIANCE: OVERVIEW OF THE EVALUATION PLAN

Table 1

Evaluation Stakeholders, Interests, and Needs

TEAM AND STAKEHOLDERS

INTERESTS AND NEEDS

Customers
  • Evidence of success
  • Minimal reporting burden
  • Information with value (e.g., benchmarks)
Field Staff
  • Information to understand and improve service delivery (feedback)
  • Customer valuation of services
  • Minimal reporting burden
Program Management
  • Timely assessment of program activities and performance
  • Viable procedures, easy to administer
  • Information to understand & improve service delivery, staff performance
Host Institutions (EDI, GA Tech)
  • Evidence of meeting sponsor and program goals
  • Recognition, visible performance
Program Associates SBDC, GA Power, DTAE
  • Evaluation in the context of what they do
  • Coordination with internal evaluation systems
  • Timely feedback on performance
Sponsor: State of Georgia
  • Economic development impacts
  • Recognition, visible performance
Sponsor: NIST
  • Meeting program goals
  • Consistent and timely information reports
  • Strengthening of good practice, learning
Evaluation Team
  • Credible evaluation
  • "Rich" information for program operation and sponsors
  • Advancement of "state" of evaluation in industrial modernization

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modified 10/18/96