opportunity stakeholder

A Stakeholder considered solely from the perspective of what is given up in return for some result. The name derives from the concept in economics of "opportunity cost". Whatever Resources are deployed to provide some result could have been used instead to provide some other result. The Stakeholders in these alternative results are Opportunity Stakeholders in the selected or actual result.

In the typical case of competition for limited Resources, we can classify the Opportunity Stakeholders of a selected use of Resources as Stakeholders in the logically prior Resource Allocation process and "non-Stakeholders" in the subsequent implementation process. Similarly, in the more unusual case of incompatible Requirements, we can consider those whose Requirements will not be met as Opportunity Stakeholders in the Requirements that will be met.

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