Stakeholder engagement with a purpose

Stakeholder engagement

Organizations operate in an ecosystem of different actors or stakeholders. Engaging these promises huge benefits – such as with more buy-in and commitment for strategic action and a better base for decision-making.

We help you reap these benefits and manage the challenges of multi-actor stakeholder engagement, navigating the diverse field of perspectives, positions and interests. Stakeholder engagement is about so much more than communication.

Our genuine dialogues enable to develop a profound, productive & strategic exchange between yourself and the relevant stakeholders. Be it in a one-off event or a strategic process of sustainable stakeholder engagement.

Science, research & innovation engagement

Engaging stakeholders for science & research & innovation faces particular challenges. The scientific topics are demanding, based on histories of prior knowledge, theories & evidence, with sophisticated concepts, terms & abbreviations. Innovation, in contrast, often requires degrees of freedom and association.

While some stakeholders are themselves experts across a domain, others are only in parts or not at all. In our experience, carefully designing & preparing these processes is a sine-qua-non for success. So is rigor in the selection of participants & input.

We have acquired deep experience & expertise in this special domain, ranging from co-developing and applying international scenario frameworks (e.g. IPCC, IPBES, UNEP) across multiple scales to developing science & innovation strategies. We frequently devise concepts and publish scientifically- such as STIR: stakeholder integrated research.

Stakeholder mapping & analysis

“Understanding the human ecosystem for your organisation or project is a vital element for engaging stakeholders successfully. We apply a specific method for this purpose: Prospex- CQI.

We systematically categorize and map groups of parties involved. For deeper engagement, selections of specific persons may be needed. Prospex-CQI provides a robust, tested and methodological manner to this end.

Analyzing the systemic relations between groups of stakeholders, topics and your organisation & project we deepen the understanding and apply it to inform the engagement strategy and specific engagement activities.”