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Stakeholder Mapping (Power-Interest Grid) template
For plotting everyone with a stake in your work by their power and their interest, and deciding how to engage each. Leave it alone when you would do it once and file it; power and interest move, and a stale map feels like diligence. Instead The same map, redrawn at each stage; power and interest move, and a stale map only looks like diligence.
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Place each named stakeholder in the quadrant their power and interest warrant, note the engagement strategy beside them, and argue about the borderline cases. Your entries persist for this browser session and can be copied out as Markdown or printed.
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Originator: Aubrey L. Mendelow (grid); R. Edward Freeman (stakeholder theory). The framework itself is not ours to license, and the written entry behind this page, its worked example, critiques and sources, stays all rights reserved. The full licence position is set out in plain English.
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A blank template is the easy part. The entry behind it covers how to run Stakeholder Mapping (Power-Interest Grid) properly, a worked example, the pitfalls real teams hit, and the situations where it is the wrong tool and something else would serve better.
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