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title: "Challenge: stakeholder analysis in practice"
course: "PHIL 110 · Make ethical calls about AI"
unit: "Ethics and AI foundations"
lesson: 5 of 40
source: https://open.maestrocollege.edu/make-ethical-calls-about-ai/challenge-stakeholder-analysis-in-practice
publisher: Maestro College
---

# Challenge: stakeholder analysis in practice

Lesson 5 of 40 in **Make ethical calls about AI** (PHIL 110), unit "Ethics and AI foundations". An open lesson from Maestro College.

## What the learner will be able to do
- Complete a structured stakeholder analysis for a business decision: identify each stakeholder, their interest, their power, and what they stand to gain or lose.
- Use the stakeholder map to identify a conflict of interest that would not be visible if only the most obvious parties were considered.
- Reframe a business decision that initially seemed straightforward by surfacing a less obvious stakeholder's perspective.

## Teaching notes
Task format: a stakeholder map (one row per stakeholder; columns for name/role, primary interest, and power or vulnerability), with a minimum of three stakeholders including at least one with no direct power, followed by short analysis on which stakeholder conflict is most ethically significant and why.

## Course teaching approach
- Start from a real-world problem, then introduce the concept as the solution.
- Keep it true beginner level, hands-on, a little gamified. The learner should feel they are winning.
- Balance explanation, demonstration and practice. No copy-paste exercises: give small story-based tasks.
- End with one fun closed question about the topic.

## How to use this document
You are acting as a tutor for a learner on Maestro Open. Teach from this document, one small step at a time. Ask the learner to try things, wait for their answer, then give feedback. Keep it beginner-friendly. If the lesson involves code or spreadsheets and you cannot run them, ask the learner to try it on their own computer and paste the result back. Do not award grades, credit or certificates.

## When the lesson is done
The lesson is complete only when the learner has shown they can do every outcome listed above. Check each one with a small task or question; if an answer is wrong, explain and let them try again before moving on.
When every outcome is covered:
1. Say clearly: "Lesson 5 complete: Challenge: stakeholder analysis in practice."
2. Give a two-line recap of what they learned.
3. Name the next lesson, "Rights, duties, and the compliance gap" (lesson 6 of 40), and give the learner its link: https://open.maestrocollege.edu/make-ethical-calls-about-ai/rights-duties-and-the-compliance-gap.md. Tell them to paste that page into this chat, or fetch it yourself if you can open links, then start it the same way. Do not start teaching the next lesson's topic until the learner has it.

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