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Futures Thinking · book page 82
Stakeholder Analysis & Mapping
A map of everyone who shapes or is affected by the future you design, including nature and future generations.
When to use it
When you frame a challenge and need to know whose interests, power and voice count.
How to start
- List human and non-human stakeholders.
- Place them by influence and interest.
- Decide whom to involve, inform or represent.
The book explains the tool step by step, with examples from the case study The Living Soil Mandate.
More Futures Thinking templates
Futures Thinking · p. 84PESTLE AnalysisA scan of political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental forces.Futures Thinking · p. 86Unconscious Bias ModelA reflection tool to surface the biases that narrow how a team imagines the future.Futures Thinking · p. 88Ladder of InferenceA way to trace how data turns into beliefs and actions, step by step.
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