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 ...

An executive at a large professional services firm was recently bemoaning the state of his company. But it wasn’t the economy or competition that was irritating him most. “We’re not doing the simple ...

A stakeholder is any person or group that affects, or is affected by, a particular project. Along the path to completing your project, stakeholders can be partners, resources or roadblocks -- and ...

Sometimes the solution to a modern business quandary is a century-old management theory. When it comes to stakeholders, that solution is called integrative unity. In 1984, Edward Freeman, an American ...

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, ...

Many leaders know firsthand that running a business is a balancing act. From keeping a pulse on the market and ensuring that customers are well taken care of to actively involving employees in ...

Human resources (HR) plays an important role in shaping an organization's success, but not all stakeholders readily acknowledge its strategic importance. Dealing with difficult stakeholders who fail ...

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, ...

In this edition of Ask An SEO, we address a familiar challenge for marketers: How do you keep stakeholders from abandoning SEO when algorithm updates cause traffic drops? This is an all-too-common ...

At an AI roundtable in November, developers said AI tools were playing a key role in coding. They said that while AI could boost productivity, stakeholders should understand its limitations. This ...