Core Values

As a research and evaluation team affiliated with the Industry Expansion Solutions unit and the College of Engineering, our organization’s core values are:

Integrity: Do the right thing – always!

Innovative Solutions: We foster creative talent to deliver high impact solutions to drive success.

Customer first: We uphold a culture of exceptional service.

Pursuit of Excellence: We partner to achieve measurable economic impacts for North Carolina and beyond.

Core Competencies

Project Management

• Develop and submit RFP responses
• Communicate regularly with clients
• Develop budgets and budget justifications
• Develop reports in a timely manner

Professionalism

• Adhere to official evaluation standards
• Perform evaluations ethically
• Respect to all stakeholders involved
• Make research contributions to the field of study

Situation Analysis

• Provide a detailed overview of the program
• Identify stakeholder data/evaluation needs and addresses during evaluation
• Seek input on the evaluation along the way
• Understand organizational cultures, politics and change theory

Reflective and Systemic Inquiry

• Develop evaluation questions aligned to the project work plan
• Understand and apply quantitative and qualitative methods
• Provide evaluation comments, strengths, limitations and opportunities

Customer Focus

• Resolve conflict
• Engage in constructive conversations and interactions
• Provide written and verbal feedback
• Solicit feedback on the evaluation process as a whole

Adapted from King et. Al 2001 Evaluation Competency Framework