Strategy

Stakeholder Impact Mapping

Stakeholder Impact Mapping reveals how solutions affect different groups. It highlights impacts teams often miss. In 78 minutes, you'll prevent solutions that help one group while harming another. Every problem affects people differently.

Duration
1.3 hours
Group Size
8-15
Category
Strategy
Difficulty
Easy
You will identify stakeholders, map impacts, surface conflicts, and prioritize needs.
You'll get a stakeholder impact map. You'll understand implications for all parties. Expect a balanced solution.
Ensure all stakeholders are represented. Surface negative impacts honestly. Sometimes, getting honest feedback on negative impacts is difficult.

  1. Stakeholder Identification (15 min): List all stakeholder groups.

  2. Impact Brainstorm (30 min): How does the solution affect each group?

  3. Impact Mapping (20 min): Visualize positive and negative effects.

  4. Conflict Analysis (10 min): Identify tradeoffs.

  5. Prioritization (3 min): Rank stakeholder importance.

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  • Stakeholder map

  • Impact matrix

  • Markers

  • Prioritization framework

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