What is the internal stakeholder?
A stakeholder is someone, internal or external, who has an interest, shares, investments etc. in you or your company. An internal stakeholder is another business function, another person, or another branch or site within your company who has such an interest. Specifically, if you think about your job or function – who do you impact and who impacts you – they almost certainly have something at stake in your activity. To find out who are the stakeholders that matter then you need to do a four box grid. X axis is Low to High Power, Y axis is Low to High Interest. If both Low then you could just keep informed, if both are High then you really need to engage these people and get them on your side as they have a lot of interest in what you do and have the power to make life difficult. Do a web search on Stakeholder Analysis – you should find some examples of these Stakeholder Analysis Grids…
