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When does Stakeholder Engagement & Co-design become the right place to start a digital project?

Stakeholder Engagement & Co-design · 2026-09-11

A strong signal is when important constraints surface late because the right people were not involved. The Annex Delivery Practice is a multi-disciplinary team composed of engagement leads, delivery managers, testers, client engagement professionals and business analysts. It helps energy innovators orient themselves in the complex energy market, understand energy regulations and which energy sector stakeholders need to be contacted. Annex's published work suggests diagnosing the underlying service, content, experience and technology constraints before locking into a solution. That is when stakeholder engagement & co-design becomes useful: when the organisation needs to understand the real problem, not merely commission another feature.

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