impact-assessment

Impact mapping visualizes the path from a business goal through actors to specific impacts and deliverables. This structured approach helps clarify how a proposed change ripples across people, process, technology, and policy dimensions before implementation begins.

You build an impact map by structuring the proposed change into a Goal -> Actor -> Impact -> Deliverable hierarchy. This framework captures dependencies and readiness levels, providing a clear visual of how changes affect various stakeholders and their deliverables.

Yes, the four-dimensional analysis explicitly covers people, process, technology, and policy. It evaluates severity and likelihood for each area, ensuring that technology upgrades or policy shifts are assessed for downstream effects and readiness before deployment.

The best way to map dependencies is through the impact mapping workflow, which captures dependencies between deliverables and assesses change readiness for affected groups to plan targeted mitigations and ensure successful adoption.

Severity and likelihood scoring is needed to prioritize downstream effects and capture mitigations. It quantifies the potential impact on stakeholders and processes, allowing teams to address high-risk areas before implementing changes.