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Level of Cloud
Awareness
Commitment to
Cloud
Influence over the
Cloud
Stakeholder 1
Stakeholder 2
Stakeholder 3
Key
High
Medium
Low
Figure 4: Cloud Stakeholder Assessment
cloud project. Also, grouping individuals and groups into discrete buckets facilitates
building support networks to anticipate and manage people resistance. The analysis
can be broken into two steps:
Step 1: A common stakeholder assessment approach is to identify and prioritize groups
of individuals who:
• Are directly impacted by the new cloud initiative — including sponsors and
change agents
• Are indirectly impacted by the new cloud initiative — including enablers
• Influence or power the new cloud initiative — including those who are with you
and those who are not
Step 2: Once you categorize qualifying constituents into manageable segments, plot an
analysis matrix into columns labeled “Level of Awareness of the Cloud,” “Commitment to
the Cloud” and “Influenced and Impacted by the Cloud.”
The resulting single page data graphic provides a high-level road map of who you need
to engage frequently, at mid-milestone and at major-milestone. For example, “I need
your commitment and active roles in creating my cloud goals; this is the target you need
to meet on a weekly, if not daily, basis.”
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Impact by
the Cloud