In this new series of articles I would like to reflect on Stakeholder Management, a subject incredibly important for the project management profession. I aim to provide some basic definitions, but also reflect on best practices, current and near-future challenges.
In all project management accreditation programmes there is a considerable emphasis on stakeholder management. Projects are about bringing change to organisations and society. It is said that “if there is no change, there is no project“. And the projects do not take place in a vacuum. There are people, with all their biases, at the project inception and all along the project lifecycle: those individuals actively involved in promoting and striving for the change, the beneficiaries, the sponsors or the investors, the passive bystanders and those who can be unintendedly affected by the project activities or the final outcome.
Change can be uncomfortable and the project success (in its wider meaning) is dependant on effective and continuous management of the stakeholders’ views, expectations and acceptance of the project.
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I hope this series will be of interest and, as usual, I will be happy to receive comments and constructive feedback.
Marco Bottacini, Senior Portfolio Manager at GALVmed
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