Business Analyst: Keeping your stakeholders happy in five steps when implementing change

Keeping your stakeholders happy when implementing change can make a major difference when it comes to the success of your company. Managing change means that you’ve found the potential for improvement in your business. Some reasons could be advances in technology, adapting to an event or optimizing your organizational structure.
Making progress and improving your business is an important factor for your company’s success.
However, implementing change means that everyone affected by your change (project stakeholders or others) needs to be on board in order to execute the change.
If you’re anything like me you’ve probably heard something like this before:
“We have always done it this way and it works, why should we change?”
Resistance to change is a common challenge Business Analysts face when trying to implement new processes.
Why can resistance harm the success of your project?
Resistance means to slow down or even prevent change from happening and this directly affects the success of your change project.
Stakeholder resistance is a serious problem and missing acceptance and adoption of new processes is a common cause for failures in innovation!
So how do we prevent resistance?
Preventing resistance comes down to keeping your stakeholders happy and engaged in your change project. Happy and engaged stakeholders will drive change and move your project forward to help you succeed!
The following 5 steps will walk you through some techniques that will actively help in keeping your stakeholders happy thus ensuring a higher success rate for your change. Read more…
