What is Evidence-Based Management?

Evidence-based management is a practice of management and decision-making based on critical thinking and reliable evidence.

If you have made a decision based on so-called “best practices” and if you haven’t questioned the culture, myths, and ideologies that contributed to those practices—your decision-making framework is fundamentally flawed.

Six steps you can follow to increase the likelihood of a favorable outcome from your decisions:

1. Asking: Translating a practical issue or problem into an answerable question
2. Acquiring: Systematically searching for and retrieving the evidence 
3. Appraising: Critically judging the trustworthiness and relevance of the evidence
4. Aggregating: Weighing and pulling together the evidence 
5. Applying: Incorporating the evidence into the decision-making process 
6. Assessing: Evaluating the outcome of the decision.