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Ahmed Mohamed PMO Project Manager| Hill international Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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 generally follows the steps described below:
Identify all potential project stakeholders and relevant information, such as their roles, departments, interests, knowledge, expectations, and influence levels.
Analyze the potential impact or support each stakeholder could generate, and classify them so as to define an approach strategy.
Assess how key stakeholders are likely to react or respond in various situations, in order to plan how to influence them to enhance their support and mitigate potential negative impacts.

Classify to PRIORITIZE key stakeholders and utilize efforts. Example of classification models ITEMS:
Power = authority
Interest = concern
Influence = involvement
Impact = ability to affect planning or execution
So we could use, power/interest, power/influence, influence/impact,
Or salience model: power + urgency + legitimacy
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Karan Shah Bangalore, Karnataka, India
The biggest issue in stakeholder analysis is the gathering of accurate information.

A lot of key stakeholders fall in the unknown-unknown quadrant and aspects of their authority, interest, influence come to light only much later - when it is often too late to do anything analytically for them.

Running analyses with assumptions is not too much of a help simply because it becomes a rote practice of chunking together the worst assumptions and the risk register goes haywire.
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1 reply by Ahmed Mohamed
Apr 17, 2018 1:51 AM
Ahmed Mohamed
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Logically, but if many stakeholders are in the unknown-unknown quadrant, then there is something wrong with the process of identifying stakeholders from the start.
I think, we are identifying stakeholders to reach a very high percentage and reduce future stakeholder's risk.
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Ahmed Mohamed PMO Project Manager| Hill international Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Logically
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Ahmed Mohamed PMO Project Manager| Hill international Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Apr 17, 2018 12:47 AM
Replying to Karan Shah
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The biggest issue in stakeholder analysis is the gathering of accurate information.

A lot of key stakeholders fall in the unknown-unknown quadrant and aspects of their authority, interest, influence come to light only much later - when it is often too late to do anything analytically for them.

Running analyses with assumptions is not too much of a help simply because it becomes a rote practice of chunking together the worst assumptions and the risk register goes haywire.
Logically, but if many stakeholders are in the unknown-unknown quadrant, then there is something wrong with the process of identifying stakeholders from the start.
I think, we are identifying stakeholders to reach a very high percentage and reduce future stakeholder's risk.
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Raja Kanuri Self employed Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Perhaps, identifying the key stakeholders could be improperly done or not done, when the project goals and the impacts are not understood. In such case, expert meetings, networking could help us identify the interest and authority a party could have on the project.

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