If you’re managing a project, it’s important to ensure you involve all the different people and groups that can impact the project’s success. Otherwise, you risk missing key perspectives or getting ...

Understanding your stakeholders is a crucial part of project management. If you don’t carefully manage stakeholders and their concerns and expectations, you risk generating backlash to your project, ...

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An agile project can be fun, exciting, and wildly successful -- as long as the stakeholders don't drive you crazy in the process. These expert tips should help. Agile methodologies have set their ...

A project's most influential stakeholders have both the desire and ability to affect not only steps involved in project management but also the final outcome. While some might be important allies, ...

The stakeholder theory of business management questions the conventional view of a corporation's purpose, methods and goals. Corporate boards and executives have long regarded maximizing profits and ...

Companies now understand that generating a profit cannot be their sole purpose. After all, 7 in 10 Americans believe that businesses have an obligation to improve societal and environmental issues.

The Project Management Body of Knowledge's (PMBOK) definition of stakeholders is very broad and all-encompassing, defining them as: "An individual, group or organisation who may affect, be affected by ...