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Seven Stories stakeholder analysis

Added by Hannah Green · last edited by Hannah Green · on Apr 18, 2012 (view change)

JISC's explanation of stakeholder analysis: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/projectmanagement/planning/stakeholders.aspx

List of potential stakeholders*
Head of finance
IT directors / managers
Heads of department
Researchers (professors, fellows, PhDs)
Project officers or departmental managers
Lecturers
Library directors / senior managers
Library managers / team leaders
Subject librarians
Acquisitions / cataloguing
Information literacy trainers
Archivists

List your stakeholders in the table below
The list above should give you a starting point, but note that this is not an exhaustive list - think about stakeholders at your institution

Stakeholder	Interest/stake
Senior Management Team	Manage organisation and staff on day-to-day basis. Includes CE, Finance Director, Ops Director & Collection Director. Need them on board to authorise digital preservation activity, and diversion of staff time & resources to this work.
Collection Trustees	Own physical assets held in Collection, and formally approve all acquisitions. Little involvement in practical implementation of activities, but need them on board in terms of understanding the value and importance of such activities.
Board members	Steer strategic planning and development of Seven Stories. Help establish priorities, focus for future planning, and overall development of organisation. As with Trustees, little involvement in practical implementation, but crucial to have them on board with recognising value of digital preservation activities to organisation.
Collection donors	Fundamental to growth and development of collection. Dependent on them to grow collection and meet aims for designation and national styling. No direct influence on decision making process or implementation of activities, but must not be alienated.
Archivist	Will be responsible for actually implementing and managing any digital preservation activities, with Conservator.
Conservator	Will be responsible for actually implementing and managing any digital preservation activities, with Archivist.
Learning & participation team	Develop routes of access into collection, piloting and developing innovative ways of engaging users with collection content. Key role in developing access and engagement with digital material.
Schools & teachers	Primary users of Seven Stories, and buy in to offers crucial to financial viability. If Seven Stories is seeking to develop digital content for schools/teachers, their buy-in is crucial to financial viability. Not directly involved in the decision making process, but extremely importance to long term financial stability of Seven Stories.
Newcastle University	Key partner of Seven Stories, and collaboration opens up potential source of skills/knowledge which is lacking within Seven Stories. Need to be convinced of the value to the university of any activity they are involved in supporting.
Visitors, esp. family audience	Primary users of Seven Stories. Need to increase footfall through the building & generate new audiences, without alienating current audiences. Not directly involved in decision making process, but extremely importance to long-term financial stability of Seven Stories.
Researchers	Users of collection, and likely users of digital content. Increased access to digital content likely to increase research access.
ACE	Provide financial support to Seven Stories. Need to demonstrate value for money, and long-term viability of activities to justify NPO status.
Newcastle City Council	Provide financial support to Seven Stories. Need to demonstrate value for money, and value which Seven Stories brings to reputation of Newcastle.
Other funding bodies	Provide funding for various, specific projects - need to demonstrate value for money & justify further funding in future.
Aero Networks	External IT company, manages all aspects of Seven Stories' IT requirements. Not involved in decision-making process, but need to be kept informed and need them on-board to assist with technical matters.

Now enter your stakeholders in the table below

	Significant Influence	Some Influence	Little Influence	No Influence
Significant Importance	Senior Management Team	Archivist Conservator	Visitors, esp. family audience Schools & teachers	Collection donors Aero Networks
Some Importance	ACE Newcastle City Council	Newcastle University Learning & participation team Other funding bodies		Researchers
Little Importance	Board members	Collection Trustees
No Importance

Stakeholder management approach - how you need to interact with them

	Interest (low)	Interest (high)
Power (high)	Keep Satisfied Board members	Manage Closely SMT
Power (low)	Monitor (Minimum effort) ...	Keep Informed Aero Networks Collection donors Archivist Conservator L&P team