Impact

See also: Impact (homonymy)

Male name.

Word used in many fields: for examples those of sciences, data processing or management and finances. Measure effects tangible and intangible, positive and negative that an incident, an accident, a change, a problem or a movement have, or could have, on its environment.

Note: The word impact is of recent use in French, it does not appear in the old dictionaries.

Physics: At the beginning, the impact indicates usually the shock of a projectile ( Point of impact ).

By extension, the word is used to indicate the consequences (possibly indirect and/or differed in space and time) of an event , a process, an activity, of an infrastructure, for example in the expression impact study in the field of the Environment, Social, the Economy, Education or Health.

Management: in trade and management, the impact relates to the effects on the businesses of an organization, in particular on the levels of agreed and awaited services, the competitors, the market and the customers. One distinguishes the unexpected effects or consequences awaited and effects of an event on the project, the informational credit or the environment, and which can influence the attack of the objectives of the organization. In French, the impact often corresponds to the negative effects: financial losses induced, and more generally with the impact on the fundamental objectives of the organization, all not being translatable in financial terms.

Connotation: The potential impact is one of the elements of the Vulnérabilité. One speaks sometimes about gravity.

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