
Project management for R&D
Stakeholders, roles, responsibilities, and powers of authority

In a project, there are usually two different groups of stakeholders:
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external - people outside your organization
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internal - people inside your organization
External stakeholders
The external stakeholders can be anything from a single person to a very complex network of many different people. A definition of all those stakeholders affected can be created by following the product physically, or by following the financial transaction it causes, or by the flow of information.
These flows partly coincide and can be combined to form a common customer chain. Other players influencing can also be added to the customer chain, for example, public authorities, mass media, or environmental movements. The end of the customer chain is made up of users or end-consumers.
Customer Chain

In the template