The Stakeholder Management Toolkit

The answers to these questions may help you to refine your problems, as well as inform your stakeholder analysis.

Step 2: Identify two critical dimensions

First, come up with two dimensions that define your problem (in this case uncertainty and uncontrollability). Next, plot your key drivers. Then, choose two drivers in the high uncertainty, high uncontrollability quadrant of the plot (in Figure 5, it is Driver B and C).

Figure 5 : Example of Critical Uncertainties

Step 3: Create scenarios

You have identified two highly important but highly uncertain drivers. Next, you must envision the extreme conditions for each driver: Extreme positive vs. extreme negative, extremely optimistic vs. extremely pessimistic. Now, draw another four-quadrant plot, with the extremes of critical uncertainties on the axes.

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