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Impact assessment is a structured method for systematically evaluating expected technical, organizational, and economic consequences of decisions or projects. It combines data analysis, stakeholder engagement, and scenario evaluation to reveal risks, costs, and benefits. Results inform governance and product decisions across organizations of varying scale.
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Executable approach: can be applied and produces an outcome.
What organizes, connects, or makes decisions possible.
An impact assessment systematically examines how a proposed measure may affect people, goals, and resources.
It arose from the need to examine decisions transparently before implementation. In policy, administration, and regulation it became a structured comparison of options, consequences, and risks.
Treat a measure as a hypothesis: state the goal, identify affected groups, derive direct and indirect effects, and compare options. Then document assumptions, uncertainty, and possible mitigations.
The clearly bounded proposal is the object being assessed.
It links activities to expected direct and later effects.
Data gaps and assumptions indicate how robust the assessment is.
The method supports policy, regulatory, and organizational decisions affecting many groups. Results are forecasts: data quality, perspective, and evaluation criteria strongly shape them.
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