Original Source:  A Girl’s Guide to Project Management 

 

“All projects have stakeholders, even the very smallest initiatives. The major reason that most project management approaches give for doing stakeholder management is that it helps you understand more about the people who will be affected by the project. This then enables you to plan communication and engagement strategies to head off any problems.

 

You know the drill – map influence and interest, then work to try to move any negative stakeholders into the quadrant where they should be through interesting communication approaches and stressing the project benefits for them.

 

However, there are other reasons for doing stakeholder management. Richard Newton, in his latest book, The Project Management Book*, sets out another 4 reasons why it is worth doing stakeholder management. Here they are…”

 

https://www.girlsguidetopm.com/4-unusual-reasons-why-stakeholder-management-is-important/