MGT 6303
Unit I Course Project: Automated Car Wash
Columbia Southern University
MGT 6303
Unit I Course Project: Automated Car Wash
Introduction
The path towards completing a successful project first starts at identifying the
stakeholders, analyzing them, and ranking them from highest to lowest priority. Stakeholders
can be very influential over the course and up to the completion of a project. Identifying the
most influential of these stakeholders and focusing a bulk of your finite attention on them
will benefit the project as a whole. The course project will use the automated car wash with
multiple self- serve vacuum stations as the chosen project. This particular paper will identify,
analyze, and rank the different project stakeholders into a stakeholder identification and
analysis plan.
Stakeholder Identification and Analysis
There are two categories of stakeholders. Policy-level stakeholders formulate the
policies and influence the outcome of the project. They ultimately decide which direction the
project should move. Implementation-level stakeholders are those who are ultimately
impacted by the project outcome (Singh, 2015). Friedman and Miles (2006) identify the most
common groups of stakeholders that should be considered; shareholders, customers,
suppliers and distributors, employees, and local communities. These groups as well as other
groups of stakeholders can be classified into internal and external stakeholders.
Unit I Course Project: Automated Car Wash
Columbia Southern University
MGT 6303
Unit I Course Project: Automated Car Wash
Introduction
The path towards completing a successful project first starts at identifying the
stakeholders, analyzing them, and ranking them from highest to lowest priority. Stakeholders
can be very influential over the course and up to the completion of a project. Identifying the
most influential of these stakeholders and focusing a bulk of your finite attention on them
will benefit the project as a whole. The course project will use the automated car wash with
multiple self- serve vacuum stations as the chosen project. This particular paper will identify,
analyze, and rank the different project stakeholders into a stakeholder identification and
analysis plan.
Stakeholder Identification and Analysis
There are two categories of stakeholders. Policy-level stakeholders formulate the
policies and influence the outcome of the project. They ultimately decide which direction the
project should move. Implementation-level stakeholders are those who are ultimately
impacted by the project outcome (Singh, 2015). Friedman and Miles (2006) identify the most
common groups of stakeholders that should be considered; shareholders, customers,
suppliers and distributors, employees, and local communities. These groups as well as other
groups of stakeholders can be classified into internal and external stakeholders.
