Sunday 4 September 2016

Stakeholder's manage or engage?


:-) Steak-Holder
In my previous blog entries I have shown how the success of a project is measured, and that success is clearly related to the level of adoption of the project solution.  Therefore happy stakeholders are key to successful projects. 

In 1998 a UK National Audit Office report identified lack of effective engagement as one of the common causes of project failure. Again in 2009 this reason was cited as a common cause of project failure.

This is 2016, hopefully we have learnt enough about the impact of poor change management that we do not want to spear our stakeholders and force them into yielding to an imposition of a solution. If we follow this approach to implementing solutions then we are treating our stakeholders to divide and conqueror approach to implementation. 

The purpose of this post is to explore the differences between Stakeholder engagement and stakeholder management. Providing a discussion, thoughts and steps you can take to improve your stakeholders participation in your next project.