Power-Interest Grid
Updated 2026-08-13
INTRODUCTION
English translation pending.
CORE DEFINITION
The power-interest grid, developed in stakeholder analysis, plots each stakeholder on two axes, power over the outcome and interest in it, producing four quadrants. The core proposition is that engagement effort should be allocated by quadrant: managing high-power high-interest parties closely, keeping high-power low-interest parties satisfied, informing low-power high-interest parties, and merely monitoring the rest. The key qualification is that both axes are situational and shift as a project moves, so the grid must be redrawn rather than treated as fixed.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Stakeholder list: enumerate everyone who is affected by or able to affect the decision. - Quadrant placement: score each one on power and on interest, then record the scores. - Strategy match: assign engagement effort by quadrant instead of treating every stakeholder equally.
Anchor fast decisions
Attention is scarce, so treating every stakeholder identically means the decisive few get too little of it. Sorting by power and interest concentrates effort where it changes the outcome, while the lower quadrants receive the minimum contact needed to prevent surprise. Because power and interest both move during a project, redrawing the grid is what keeps the allocation from going stale.
MINIMUM ACTION
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- en.wikipedia.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakeholder_analysisverified
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