Challenges in Stakeholder Engagement in Defence Infrastructure

This report identifies five key challenges in managing stakeholders within complex defense projects: differing stakeholder interests, resistance to data sharing, unclear needs, conflicting requirements, and stakeholders urging specific system designs. It proposes mitigation strategies such as stakeholder analysis workshops, thorough requirement assessments, and clarification meetings to foster transparency and address conflicting needs. By implementing these strategies, project managers can improve stakeholder engagement, reduce project risks, and enhance the likelihood of successful project outcomes. Desklib provides access to similar documents and study tools.

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Challenges
The five key challenges in the process of managing stakeholders on a complex defence
projects are as follows
Interests of stakeholders: different stakeholder groups have their own interests; this
factor needs to be considered during the designing of the framework of complex project.
Resistance of stakeholders in sharing data: in some cases the stakeholders do not seem
to be interested in sharing data (Buede and Miller 2016). While carrying out a complex defense
project, the coordination among members is the most considered factor. This issues results in
resistance in innovation.
Unclear definition of real needs: this issue arises when requirements are not clear to the
stakeholders. Poorly defines requirements might result in project failure.
Rejecting stakeholders: requirements that are conflicting in nature can be obtained from
different stakeholders, this result in a dilemma regarding which requirements should be
considered and which ones would be rejected.
Stakeholder’s urging to design the system: sometimes when stakeholders are asked for
their requirements or suggestions regarding a specific project, instead of cooperating with
analysts and providing them with their requirements or suggestions they tend to provide
solutions (Carl 2015). In many cases the solutions that are provided by them result in occurring
new issues and not the solution for the present ones.
Mitigation strategies
Some ways that can be used in order to overcome these challenges are as follows

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Analysis of stakeholders: a business analyst of a particular complex defense project must
prepare workshop along with stakeholder analysis. Stakeholder’s engagement in the workshop
must be ensured. Proper strategies should be utilized in order to implement the workshop.
Assessing the requirements: the requirements should be accessed properly and their
quality must be ensured.
Meeting: meetings should be arranged in order to clarify the requirements of the
stakeholders, common requirements can be shortlisted (Buede and Miller 2016). This would be
helpful in making a transparent process. The requirements that are complex in nature can be
understood better. Here the mutual agreement regarding ways to move forward with the
conflicting requirements within the project among the stakeholders would be the best solution.

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References
Buede, D. M., and Miller, W. D. 2016. The engineering design of systems: models and
methods. John Wiley & Sons.
Dr. Edwards. M. 2014. Support Systems: from Concepts to a Systems Engineering Model.
Engineering Fellow