An exercise in Stakeholder Analysis for a hypothetical offshore wind ...

STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS EXERCISE
The following box contains a checklist of questions to check assumptions about risks.
Box 2. Checklist for eliciting assumptions about (and risks
deriving from) stakeholders.
• What is the role or response of the key stakeholder
that must be assumed if the project is to be
successful?
• are these roles plausible and realistic?
• are there negative responses which can be
expected, given the interests of the stakeholder?
• if such responses occur, what impact would they
have on the project?
• how probable are these negative responses, and are
they major risks?
• in summary, which plausible assumptions about
stakeholders support or threaten the project?
Source: Overseas Development Administration, 1999.
2.5. Defining Stakeholder participation
Once stakeholders’ interests have been interpreted, we need to evaluate their degree of
participation and the information they require.
Not all stakeholders need to be involved at all stages or in all aspects of the project.
The Stakeholder Analysis has put us in a position where we have been able to identify
groups with similar information needs. We can use the classification to prepare an
information report about the project to which we can also attach a breakdown of
communication procedure costs.
The participation matrix methodology proposed in Figure 3 can be an aid to project
managers categorising the strategy for involving stakeholders.
The life cycle stages show the different stages of the project. The types of participation
are generic and suggest stakeholder procedures that can be determined by the project
team. As such, they can be adapted to the envisaged project.
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