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Tools for Sustainability Assessment
Published in Toolseeram Ramjeawon, Introduction to Sustainability for Engineers, 2020
Stakeholders are all those who need to be considered in achieving project goals and whose participation and support are crucial to its success. Stakeholder analysis is a way to identify a project’s key stakeholders, assess their interests and needs, and clarify how these may affect the project’s viability. Project managers can use the analysis to plan how to address these social and institutional aspects. The analysis can also contribute to project design by identifying the goals and roles of different stakeholder groups, and by helping to formulate appropriate forms of engagement with these groups. Stakeholder analysis can be usefully implemented at any stage of the project cycle, but its use should always be considered at the outset of a project. Participation of interested stakeholders is an area where many engineers will be called on to manage and participate with specialists who work in the social assessment area. Stakeholder analysis is an entry point to SIA as part of an EIA and participatory work. It addresses strategic questions such as who are the key stakeholders? What are their interests in the project? What are the power differentials between them? What relative influence do they have on the operation? This information helps to identify institutions and relationships which, if ignored, can have negative influence on proposals, or if considered can be built upon to strengthen them.
Integration in Systems Engineering Context
Published in Gary O. Langford, Engineering Systems Integration, 2016
Stakeholder analysis is a methodology for identifying stakeholders and analyzing their underlying value and interests in the system. The methodology involves several processes and tools that cater to discovering types, significance, and value of stakeholders. At risk are the consequences of not uncovering the current and potential future interests and objectives of affected parties. Conjugate benefits include (1) a better appreciation of the complexity of the system and the undertaking; (2) understanding of the stakeholder influence(s) and how to manage those influences; (3) a more thorough examination of multiple-use objectives; (4) identification and resolution of potentially conflicting requirements; and (5) exploration of architecture alternatives. Additionally, stakeholder analysis encourages a forum to improve mutual understanding about issues, ideas, and solutions that represent potential stakeholders not included or perhaps not even yet considered stakeholders. Stakeholder analysis aids discovery of new stakeholders and their requirements. This more extensive involvement increases the long-term stability of the system’s appropriateness and applicability to changing situations. The methodology outlined here becomes increasingly important for systems of greater worth and complexity.
Organizational Change
Published in James William Martin, Operational Excellence, 2021
A formal stakeholder analysis is needed to identify internal or external people who could be impacted by a project, need to approve work, or may provide resource or support. An example is shown in Figure 2.1. Stakeholders represent the project's scope. The broader the scope, the more stakeholders who will need to be included in the project. A stakeholder analysis is a useful tool to help understand initial stakeholder positions to gain support. The second question is, “What do they need from us?” Will they need project updates, inclusion of their feedback into the project charter or other types of work? After this, the stakeholders are rated on a scale between strongly against the project to strongly supportive of it.
Mixing waters: stakeholder influence in transboundary water conflict and cooperation
Published in Water International, 2022
The stakeholder analysis further informs decision-making by emphasizing the needs of stakeholders. Through the consideration of power, vulnerability and risk, the framework enables a critical, multidisciplinary understanding of how stakeholders experience water quality. In doing so, the analysis serves as a mechanism to assess the local effectiveness of transboundary institutions in reducing vulnerability and risk for various stakeholders and highlights deficiencies to address in future interactions. The framework also demonstrates the extent that equity underlies state interactions. In understanding that cooperation cannot be sustained without equity, this tool can identify groups that are not being served by the current strategies and encourage states to engage with a broader diversity of needs (Zeitoun et al., 2014). Incorporation of these processes can help to reduce the amount of displaced conflict that occurs at local scales and minimize the domestic pressures that escalate conflict to the transboundary level.
Stakeholder analysis of the governance framework of a national SDI dataset – whose needs are met in the buildings and address register of the Netherlands?
Published in International Journal of Digital Earth, 2020
Serena Coetzee, Martijn Odijk, Bastiaan van Loenen, Janette Storm, Jantien Stoter
A stakeholder analysis is useful for revealing the intentions, interrelations, agendas, interests and influences of respective stakeholders, so that strategies for managing stakeholders can be developed, the implementation of decisions or objectives can be facilitated or the feasibility of future directions can be assessed (Brugha and Varvasovszky 2000). The results of the stakeholder analysis in this paper show that municipalities provide local data are in close proximity to the BAG and are prepared to take immediate action if things go wrong, yet they have less power than facilitating stakeholders to influence how their work on the BAG is done. This may lead to unhappiness among stakeholders providing local data, because they could feel that they have to use their resources to meet the objectives of other stakeholders. This sentiment was reflected in some of the semi-structured interviews, and is also echoed in a report on stakeholder engagement regarding a national address point database conducted in the USA (NGSIC 2014). To avoid such sentiments escalating, a number of measures have been implemented in the Netherlands to support municipalities with their BAG responsibilities, including a dedicated implementation campaign, the BAG help desk and the BAG quality dashboard.
Quantifying stakeholders’ influence on energy efficiency of housing: development and application of a four-step methodology
Published in Construction Management and Economics, 2018
The second step in stakeholder analysis is the prioritization of their influence on an organization. Table 2 summarizes the literature relating to stakeholder prioritization, revealing the concepts behind each approach and the attributes used by various researchers for prioritizing stakeholders’ influence. For instance, Mitchell et al. (1997) have prioritized stakeholders based on their possession of certain attributes. According to their research, stakeholders can be ranked by counting the number of attributes they possess.