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What is stakeholder mapping?
Stakeholder mapping is an important tool for stakeholder professionals and project managers. It allows them to analyse stakeholders, develop stakeholder management plans, and engage with stakeholders more effectively.
In Simply Stakeholders, stakeholder mapping is based on 6 attributes:
Influence
How likely will the project be influenced by the individual, community, or workplace?Interest
To what degree will their specific interests (cultural, social, economic) in the project be affected?Impact
How likely is it that the project will impact the individual, community, or workplace?Criticality
How critical is the stakeholder to the success of the project?Position
What is the stakeholder’s position towards the project?Effort
How much effort will it take to engage the stakeholder?
Check out this blog post to see more information about stakeholder mapping.
Every stakeholder should be mapped for each attribute on a scale from very low to very high, or negative to positive. These attributes will be visually mapped on pie graphs, stacked bar graphs, or scatter plots.
Note:
An administrator can change the 6 attributes In the Admin settings to suit your stakeholder needs.
How to set initial stakeholder mapping values
Initial values can be set when creating a new stakeholder.
Click the green plus button
, then select Stakeholder.
Image of adding a new stakeholder.
In the Add New Stakeholder popup, click Add more.
Scroll down and click the Mapping Fields dropdown.
Use the sliders to set Initial mapping values for the stakeholder.
Note: Leaving a slider in its original position will set the value as "Not Set".Save the new stakeholder.
The Initial mapping values will appear in the Stakeholder Mapping panel of their stakeholder record.
How to update stakeholder mapping values
You can set a stakeholder's initial values after creating their stakeholder record, then edit or update them at any time.
Click the Stakeholder icon
on the left of the screen.Click the name of the stakeholder you want to access. This will open their stakeholder record.
Click Edit in the Stakeholder Mapping panel to open the editing popup.
Image of the Stakeholder Mapping panel edit button.
Scroll down the popup to set or edit the score by selecting a number value for each category, with 1 being low or negative and 5 being very high or positive.
Image of the popup to set stakeholder mapping values.
Click Apply to save the new values.
The set values will now appear in the Stakeholder Mapping panel.
Image of the initial and current stakeholder mapping values for comparison.
Current values show in dark blue.
Initial values remain as light blue beneath the current values.
This makes it easy for the relationship manager or other users to track changes and monitor how engagement is influencing the stakeholder's position.
For more help
For more information, to arrange a demo or for product training please contact your Customer Success Account Executive or email [email protected].