1. Evaluation Leadership

Minnesota

Minnesota Management and Budget’s Enterprise Director for Results Management serves as the state’s Chief Performance and Evaluation Officer. They partner with state agencies and lead the Results Management team to collect, analyze, share, and use data and performance measures to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of public programs and inform policy decisions affecting them. Results Management provides evaluation leadership to the state in three primary ways: coordinating data-informed interagency work; assistance to support use of evidence in practice; and conducting original impact evaluations. Results Management tracks the use of evidence in policy making over time through an annual policy maker survey and uses the findings to help inform its strategies and services. The team specializes in inventories of evidence in state programs, providing sector-specific analysis and hosting a public inventory. The team also incubates new cross-agency work to advance evaluation in the enterprise, such as the MN Story Collective.