Evidence-Based Management
by Center for Evidence-Based Management
You’re not alone: the story of the evidence movement
About this podcast
This podcast is a study companion to the course on Evidence-Based Management from the Center for Evidence Based Management and Carnegie Mellon University. Hosted by CEBMa Fellow and 20 year change management veteran Karen Plum, each episode is dedicated to exploring some of the challenges, opportunities, issues, frustrations and lightbulb moments associated with learning to be more evidenced-based in organisational decision making.
Episodes
- You’re not alone: the story of the evidence movement · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 18Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions People working in evidence-based management can sometimes feel like they are swimming against the tide. But they are part of…
- Working with uncertainty: A conversation on evidence-based management · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 17Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions Working with evidence-based management can be uncomfortable. It asks people to sit with uncertainty rather than reach for…
- Module 12 Aggregate - Weigh and pull together the evidence · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 12Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode was updated in 2025 to reflect changes to the online course relating to how best to aggregate the evidence (via…
- Ask the experts · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 16Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode was recorded live with three evidence-based management experts, Denise Rousseau, Rob Briner and Eric Barends…
- Module 5 Acquire evidence from the scientific literature · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 5Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode was updated in 2025 to reflect the use of AI tools such as Consensus and Google Scholar for searching academic…
- Module 15 Building the capacity for evidence-based management · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 15Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode accompanies the last module of the course – module 15, which is all about building an evidence-based management…
- Module 14 Assess - evaluate the outcome of the decision taken · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 14Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode accompanies Module 14 of the course, which is about evaluating the outcome of the decision we’ve taken or the…
- Module 13 Apply - incorporating evidence into decision-making · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 13Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode accompanies Module 13 of the course, which is about incorporating evidence into the decision making process. Is the…
- Module 11 Appraise evidence from stakeholders · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 11Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode accompanies Module 11 of the course, which is about appraising evidence from stakeholders – the people affected by…
- Module 10 Acquire evidence from stakeholders · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 10Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode accompanies Module 10 of the course, which is about acquiring evidence from stakeholders – the people affected by…
- Module 9 Appraise evidence from the organisation · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 9Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode accompanies Module 9 of the course, which is about the appraisal of the data, information and evidence gathered…
- Module 8 Acquire evidence from the organisation · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 8Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode accompanies Module 8 of the course, which is about the data, information and evidence gathered within the…
- Module 7 Appraise evidence from the scientific literature · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 7Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode accompanies Module 7 of the course, which is about judging the quality of the evidence from the scientific…
- Module 6 A short introduction to science · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 6Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode accompanies Module 6 of the course, which is an introduction to the scientific literature that can be used as part…
- Module 4 Appraise evidence from practitioners · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 4Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode accompanies Module 4 of the course, which is all about assessing the quality and reliability of the evidence from…
- Module 3 Acquire evidence from practitioners · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 3Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode accompanies Module 3 of the course, which is all about acquiring evidence from practitioners – people who have…
- Module 2 ASK critical questions · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 2Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode accompanies Module 2 of the course, which is all about asking questions – critical questions to understand what the…
- Module 1 Principles of evidence-based management · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 1Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode accompanies Module 1 of the course which covers the basic principles of evidence-based management and gives an…
- Taking the course · 30 min · Season 1Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions This episode gives a background to the course - how it was created, its founding principles, the science behind the “learning by…
- Course Introduction · 28 min · Season 1Send us a message with your thoughts or reactions Show notes Welcome to the Evidence-Based Management podcast – dedicated to those studying evidence based practice in the field…







