Workshop: Stakeholder Analysis

Background

Design work involves considering the impacts of your decisions, especially on various stakeholders. You’ve already examined stakeholders and their potential reactions to your project. This activity aims to delve deeper, identifying additional stakeholders and understanding how your choices might affect them.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this workshop, you will be proficient in identifying less obvious stakeholders, categorizing them effectively, and analyzing how your project might influence their lives.

Instructions

  1. Place the stakeholder map and harms and benefits canvas on your board.
  2. Identify stakeholders, categorizing them as Core/Direct/Indirect:
    • Generate a comprehensive list of stakeholders.
    • Utilize the material you collected during last week’s homework exercise supplemented with additional desk research where needed.
    • If you like, draw connections to highlight especially notable relations.
  3. Determine the impact on stakeholders:
    • Discuss each stakeholder’s classification (Core/Direct/Indirect).
    • Choose 1-2 stakeholders from each category to discuss in detail.
    • Explore the benefits and potential negative impacts for each stakeholder.

Extra Credit

You can take this analysis further by bringing in the concept of values, which we can define as things that groups of people hold to be especially important in life (including but not limited to moral values).

  1. Map the identified benefits and harms to corresponding values (an example of a value could be “privacy” or “sustainability”).
  2. Conceptualize the identified values (i.e., briefly define the value in your own words).
  3. Identify potential value conflicts (i.e., highlight on your board which values might oppose each other).

Product

A completed stakeholder analysis using the canvas provided.

Follow-up

We will review and discuss your analysis in a group session later today.

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