Internal Stakeholders are groups or individuals who work within an organization or project. stakeholdermap.com
Who are Internal Stakeholders?
Stakeholders are any groups or individuals who can affect or are affected by an organization, strategy or project. They can be internal or external and they can be at senior or junior levels. According to Nilson (2006: p170), internal stakeholders are those in the management, marketing experts, designers, purchasing, manufacturing, assembly and sales, while external stakeholders are the users/customers, distributors, governments, suppliers, communities, laws and regulations. (Karim, et al., 2007, pp.8).
MindMap of Internal Stakeholders
This is a free mindmap you can use as a starting point for identifying your Internal Stakeholders.- Generic stakeholder list
- Big data suggested stakeholder list
- Construction stakeholders
- IT project stakeholder list
- ecommerce project stakeholder list
Download a template for mapping internal stakeholders
PowerPoint download - Internal Stakeholder Mapping template
PDF download - Internal Stakeholder Mapping template
MindMap download - Internal Stakeholders
Internal Stakeholders - references and further reading
Heerkens, G (2013). Project Management, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill Education.
Nilson P & Fagerstrom B (2006). Managing Stakeholder Requirements in a Product Modelling System, Computers in Industry, 57:167;177. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166361505001053. Accessed 07 February 2023.
Saipol Bari Abd Karim, Hamzah Abdul Rahman, Mohamed Ali Berawi, Aini Jaapar (2007). A review of the issues and strategies of stakeholder management in the construction industry, Management in Construction and Researchers Association (MICRA), Meetings and Conference, 28_29 Aug 2007, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/172847/Issues_and_Strategies_in_Stakeholder_Management. Accessed 04 February 2015.
Rivenburgh. D, (2013) The New Corporate Facts of Life: Rethink Your Business to Transform Todays Challenges into Tomorrows Profits AMACOM.
Stakeholder Management resources
- Stakeholder analysis templates in Word, Visio and Excel.
- Stakeholder Management ebook
- Happy Stakeholders - Pleasure and Displeasure List
- Stakeholders - who are the Key Players? - Some Stakeholders are really important. How do you find them and get them on your side before they can do any damage?
- Project stakeholders - typical stakeholders on a project
- Stakeholder mindmap - a mindmap showing Stakeholders for an IT project.
- Stakeholder Salience - an overview of the stakeholder salience model.