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Are You Assessing Risk—or Impact?

Not all change challenges are the same. Some block adoption — others just shake things up. Use the MECE (Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive) principle to clearly separate risk from impact, so you can tackle each with the right strategy.

Risk Assessment

  • Focus: Barriers to adoption
  • Purpose: to identify and mitigate threats to successful people-side adoption.
  • Assesses the likelihood that stakeholders won't adopt, support, or sustain the change.
  • Looks at readiness, resistance, leadership support, competing priorities, and communication breakdowns.

Impact Assessment

  • Focus: Effects of the change
  • Purpose: to inform planning of communications, training, and engagement strategies.
  • Evaluates who and what will be affected by the change — roles, processes, tools, behaviors, and structures.
  • Focuses on scope and magnitude of disruption for each group.
 
In summary:
Risk = barriers to adoption Impact = scope of disruption
 
This structure ensures complete, non-overlapping analysis of change challenges.