What is evidence-informed decisions?
Evidence-informed management uses the best available evidence from multiple sources while making assumptions, quality limits, uncertainty, values, and practical constraints explicit.
See how well you combine organisational data with research, professional expertise, stakeholder evidence, ethics, and context.
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Choose the answer that best describes your recent behaviour at work. No email required.
What does evidence-informed decisions mean?
Evidence-informed management uses the best available evidence from multiple sources while making assumptions, quality limits, uncertainty, values, and practical constraints explicit.
Why it matters at work
Data do not make decisions by themselves. Metrics can be incomplete, biased, delayed, or gamed. Better decisions come from a clear question, appropriate evidence, sound interpretation, stakeholder knowledge, and learning after action.
What this assessment measures
Question & measures
Defining the decision, outcome, comparison, and measures before searching for confirming numbers.
Evidence quality & synthesis
Assessing sources, uncertainty, representativeness, alternative explanations, and the fit between evidence and context.
Judgment & learning
Integrating evidence with ethics and expertise, making a decision, and reviewing predicted versus actual outcomes.
How to interpret your score
Your overall result is normalised to a 0–100 scale. Use it to choose a practice area, not to compare your worth with somebody else.
Build your evidence-informed decisions foundation
Your answers identify situations where a small, visible practice could make this capability more dependable.
A developing evidence-informed decisions pattern
You use this capability in some conditions. Focus on the dimension that becomes least reliable under pressure.
A strong evidence-informed decisions pattern
Your answers suggest a reliable pattern. Keep testing it against harder work and evidence from people affected.
Designed for reflection, not diagnosis
The ten behaviour-based statements cover 3 practical dimensions. Responses run from “Never” to “Almost always”; negatively worded items are reverse-scored. Overall and dimension results are converted to a 0–100 scale. The assessment is educational and has not been psychometrically validated.
Read the full assessment methodology and editorial standards.
Research that informed this page
Denise M. Rousseau (2006), “Is There Such a Thing as ‘Evidence-Based Management’?”, Academy of Management Review.