Stakeholders, Capabilities and Ecosystems
Stakeholder power, resources, capabilities, value networks, platforms and ecosystem dependencies.
How to study CIMA Strategic Level
Secure E3, P3 and F3 knowledge before practising integrated long-term judgement and professional communication. Static study assets do not reproduce all objective-test interactions or the pre-seen, unseen information, locked written sections and human marking of the Strategic Case Study.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Map stakeholder interests, power and relationships.
Exam cue: Identify who provides and who captures value.
Concept 2
Evaluate resources and capabilities as sources of advantage.
Exam cue: Test whether a capability is valuable, scarce and difficult to reproduce.
Concept 3
Assess ecosystem and platform opportunities, dependencies and risks.
Exam cue: Trace dependency and control across the ecosystem.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Treating every resource as a strategic capability.
Guardrail: Check the applicable blueprint, task verb, assumptions, units, evidence provenance, stakeholder effects, residual risk and whether the conclusion follows.
Ignoring stakeholders with low current power but high exposure.
Guardrail: Check the applicable blueprint, task verb, assumptions, units, evidence provenance, stakeholder effects, residual risk and whether the conclusion follows.
Assuming platform scale removes governance and concentration risk.
Guardrail: Check the applicable blueprint, task verb, assumptions, units, evidence provenance, stakeholder effects, residual risk and whether the conclusion follows.
Memory anchors
Strategic capability
A resource or competence that supports the organisation's ability to compete and change.
Business ecosystem
Interdependent participants whose interactions jointly create and exchange value.
Network effect
An increase in value to participants as the number or activity of users grows.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
A ministry can approve a rail project and is highly concerned about its regional employment effect. Under Mendelow’s matrix, how should the project team manage this stakeholder?
A software platform depends on a specialist supplier’s interface for 70% of customer transactions. The supplier can also connect users directly to rival platforms. What is the principal ecosystem risk?
Answer all questions to submit.
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