Stakeholder analysis.
A technique of systematically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interests should be taken into account throughout the project.
Stakeholder analysis results in a list of stakeholders and relevant information about them:
Stakeholders’ stakes can include:
A technique of systematically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interests should be taken into account throughout the project.
Stakeholder analysis results in a list of stakeholders and relevant information about them:
- Their positions in the organization,
- Roles on the project,
- “Stakes,”
- Expectations,
- Attitudes (their levels of support for the project),
- Interest in information about the project.
Stakeholders’ stakes can include:
- Interest. A person or group can be affected by a decision related to the project or its outcomes.
- Rights (legal or moral rights). Legal rights, such as occupational health and safety, may be defined in the legislation framework of a country. Moral rights may involve concepts of protection of historical sites or environmental sustainability.
- Ownership. A person or group has a legal title to an asset or a property.
- Knowledge. Specialist knowledge, which can benefit the project through more effective delivery of project objectives, organizational outcomes, or knowledge of the power structures of the organization.
- Contribution. Provision of funds or other resources, including human resources, or providing support for the project in more intangible ways, such as advocacy in the form of promoting the objectives of the project or acting as a buffer between the project and the power structures of the organization and its politics.
