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9 January 2025
Onion Model for stakeholder identification
9 January 2025

Identifying Stakeholders with the Onion Model

Thorough stakeholder identification is essential for project success, and the Onion Model is the third technique in our post series that provides a unique, visual way to ensure no critical stakeholders are overlooked. Ian Alexander, together with Suzanne and James Robertson, popularized this technique in their books in the early 2000s.
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17 January 2025
Article about Mendelow Matrix for stakeholder analysis
17 January 2025

Stakeholder Analysis: Mendelow’s Matrix

In our continuing series on stakeholder management, we’ve explored why identifying stakeholders is crucial and examined techniques like nomination, checklists, and the onion model. Now that we have identified our stakeholders, the next step is to analyze them using Mendelow’s Matrix, a fundamental tool for stakeholder mapping.
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26 October 2025
Working on requirements elicitation plan
26 October 2025

Don’t Start Eliciting Without a Plan! How to Structure Your Requirements Discovery

Eliciting requirements sounds simple, until you realise that everyone has a different view of what’s “needed.” Many new business analysts find themselves in meetings full of opinions, conflicting priorities, and vague statements like “We just need it to be faster.”
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14 April 2026
Stakeholder Attitude
14 April 2026

Beyond Power and Interest: Adding Attitude to Your Stakeholder Analysis

In our previous post, we explored Mendelow’s Matrix, a fundamental tool for mapping stakeholders along two dimensions: power and interest. By now, you know which stakeholders to manage closely, which to keep informed, which to keep satisfied, and which require minimal effort. That is already a significant step forward in your stakeholder engagement planning.
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