Congratulations on completing your project! The final step is to evaluate its impact and results alongside your stakeholders and project team.Is the project truly complete? Have you achieved your goals? What aspects were missing or could be improved upon? These questions are key to a post-project evaluation. This critical reflection not only helps in determining whether the project has been successfully completed but also identifies areas for improvement and growth in future initiatives. Evaluat…

Assessing Outcomes and OutputsIn this final phase, you need to assess the tangible deliverables and the broader impacts of the project. Outputs: Measure the deliverables against the predetermined criteria to evaluate their success. Compare actual results with the expected outcomes, identifying variances and understanding their causes. Outcomes: Broader outcomes are the long-term impacts that extend beyond the immediate deliverables. These can include social, environmental, or economic changes. Whe…

Analysing the feedback collected and the data from KPIs not only helps to assess the LL process and the success of the results, but this also forms the basis for designing possible new cycles of the Living Lab. Each phase of design, experimentation and evaluation thus provides valuable input for a continuous process of improvement to build effective solutions.Iteration is not mandatory or even limited to specific phases, but it is a fundamental process for progressively adapting a solution to th…

Before you move to the next step, check if you have done the following: Map the possible critical point that needs a new cycle and identify the phase to which it relates (e.g. ideation, creation, evaluation) Revisit and maybe redefine new project objectives Review your KPIs and see if they should be adjusted Revisit the Participatory Business Models for Cultural Heritage canvas Create a new action plan based on the identified phase and the new set of objectives