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Stakeholder Map Generator

Describe your project and get its stakeholders mapped onto the power/interest grid — so you know exactly who to engage, and how much.

Example

Here's the kind of result this tool produces:

Manage Closely · High Power, High Interest

  • Executive sponsor
  • Head of HR

Keep Satisfied · High Power, Low Interest

  • CFO
  • Legal & compliance

Keep Informed · Low Power, High Interest

  • Department managers
  • IT support team

Monitor · Low Power, Low Interest

  • External vendors

How to use a stakeholder map

A stakeholder map sorts everyone affected by your project by two things: how much power they have, and how much they care. That tells you how to spend your limited engagement energy.

  • Manage closely — high power, high interest: your key players.
  • Keep satisfied / informed — engage proportionally to power and interest.
  • Monitor — low power, low interest: light touch.

Frequently asked questions

What is a stakeholder map?
A stakeholder map plots the people and groups affected by a project onto a power/interest grid, so you know how much attention each one needs and how to engage them.
What is the power/interest grid?
A 2×2 grid: high power + high interest (manage closely), high power + low interest (keep satisfied), low power + high interest (keep informed), and low power + low interest (monitor).
Why map stakeholders?
Projects fail on politics as often as on execution. Mapping stakeholders helps you spend engagement effort where it matters and avoid being blindsided by someone powerful you ignored.
When should you create a stakeholder map?
Early in a project or change initiative, and again whenever the cast of stakeholders shifts.