Supporting change and better controlling the risks associated with it
Supporting change among stakeholders and understanding the risks involved

The risk identification and management process is broken down into six successive phases, involving :

• carry out an initial inventory of stakeholders and impacts once the project has been decided, but before it is launched and stakeholders mobilized;

• complete the inventory of stakeholders and impacts as far as possible during the project launch and mobilization phase;

• amend, if necessary, the list of stakeholders and impacts during the implementation period, as the detailed definition of deliverables becomes available; for each impact, finalize the descriptions of the initial and final states, so as to anticipate the required changes in methods and behaviors;

• Explain, if possible with the participation of the stakeholders concerned, the changes required in methods and behaviors as soon as an impact is sufficiently detailed,...