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Strengths and limitations
The simple diagnostic tool may help to identify the key people needing to be informed about the project during implementation, including potential risks and the possible effect of ‘negative’ stakeholders.
In relation to social care change, the Power-Interest Grid helps to identify the governance and political processes that will be important to navigate and stakeholders who could be a barrier to what is proposed. However, it suggests that most energy should be spent on stakeholders with most power which means that those who could be principally affected by the change could be neglected.
Further reading
1. Johnson G and Scholes K (2002) Exploring Corporate Strategy, Financial Times/Prentice Hall.
2. Mendelow A (1991) ‘Stakeholder Mapping’, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Systems, Cambridge, MA (cited in Scholes, 1998).
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