How to Determine Who are the Stakeholders

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The Role of a Strategic Planner - this short article by Ruth Teale describes some of the various roles that you could play as a lead strategic planner. It also describes some of the qualities that are needed in order to facilitate an effective planning process. It is important to understand what the business/organization needs from you and to provide them with the support and facilitation they need. Every planning situation is different, but Ruth does a great job of identifying some of the most common roles that strategic planners find themselves embracing as well as some of the most needed skills of strategic planners. As you read through all of this short article see if you can identify some of the roles that you feel you may play this semester as well as the skills you will need as you complete your strategic planning project. (http://www.changedesigns.co.za/The_role_of_a_strategic_planner.htm)

* Who Should be Involved in Planning - this portion of a website for strategic planning addresses "who" should be involved in the process and supplies caveats to consider when putting together a planning team. It will be impossible for you to meet all of the suggestions provided, but take note of the recommendations and consider which you can follow as you complete your strategic planning project.
(http://www.managementhelp.org/plan_dec/str_plan/str_plan.htm#anchor4293669732)

* Who are Stakeholders and What is Their Role -this brief article will give you a lot to consider when you are putting together your planning committee and determining your stakeholders. The article discusses the individuals that you might want to consider and discusses how to win support from stakeholders. As with the other web readings, it is a short reading, but gives good suggestions and information. Read the entire article for the full benefit.
(http://university-essays.tripod.com/stakeholders.html)

* Stakeholder Analysis - Regardless of how talented a strategic planner may be, there are always going to be people who oppose the planning process and "champions" who support every step of the process. The important thing is to identify all of the stakeholders involved and attempt to understand their interest level (high, low), positions (directly involved, indirectly involved), and power (high, low) within the process. This article does a good job of explaining the steps of conducting a stakeholder analysis and will serve as a guide for you as you complete a Stakeholder Analysis for your strategic planning project. This is a short article but contains crucial information. As such, you will want to ensure that you read the entire article at least once, and maybe twice. :)
(http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_07.htm)

* Roles in Technology Planning - this site contains information on the roles involved in creating a technology strategic plan for a K-12 school. If you are interested in technololgy planning in a k-12 environment you may want to check out this site for more information.