Mod 5 Written Assignment instructions
It has been several weeks since Major Warren received the news that he had been selected to be the
Incident Commander and principal planner of the Democratic-Republican National Convention
scheduled for August of next year. Upon hearing the news, Major Warren immediately got to work. He
met with captains and lieutenants, and he reached out to other commanders in the Miami-Dade Police
Department in order to pick their brains. There were many commanders with plenty experience in
planning large scale special events such as this one, and Warren was not embarrassed to ask questions.
That was his personality and his leadership style. He felt very secure of himself and did not feel
threatened by others’ ideas.
In these past few weeks, Major Warren had forced himself to take a crash course on large scale special
event planning. He had been involved in the planning of smaller events, and he had considerable
experience in handling large critical incidents, but this was a different matter altogether. The more he
learned, the more he realized how little he knew, and how much he to catch up on.
During this time, Major Warren had met with Major Camille Ingram, the commander of the Criminal
Intelligence Bureau. Warren had asked Ingram to focus her Bureau’s attention to protest groups that
were likely to target the DRNC for disruptive demonstrations. Ingram agreed and assigned two of her
top analysts to focus exclusively on the DRNC. Warren and his staff were put on a regular distribution list
and received daily intelligence reports via e-mail from CIB. Most of these intelligence reports were from
open sources, and readily available to the public. Warren and his lieutenants were way too busy to look
for these articles and blogs on their own. That is why the two analysts that were assigned to the DRNC
became such a valuable asset.
Major Warren soon came to the realization of how many different players were involved in the planning
and execution of the DRNC. There seemed to be hundreds of interested parties in this event, and that
did not take into account the possible protest groups that were likely to show up. He realized that
before he could proceed in the planning of the event, he needed to formulate some general policies and
strategies. To do that, he needed to account for all the players likely to be involved in, or affected by the
policy. He needed to know who his partners would be and who his adversaries would be. He needed to
know what their expectations were and what the possible points of conflict would be. Lastly, he needed
to know how these groups would interact with one another.
Warren had graduated two years earlier with a master's degree in public administration and he had
learned about stakeholder analysis during his studies. He decided to put this knowledge to work for a
practical application. He wrote an e-mail to Major Ingram requesting that the CIB put together a
comprehensive list of stakeholders that are likely to be involved in the DRNC. He asked that the list of
stakeholders include all partners and possible adversaries. Finally, he asked if CIB would conduct a
comprehensive stakeholder analysis and to include a stakeholder map with their report. Major Ingram
agreed to this and told Warren that he would have his stakeholder analysis within a week.
For this assignment, you will assume the role of Major Camille Ingram, the commander of the Criminal
Intelligence Bureau. You have been asked by Major Warren to complete a comprehensive stakeholder
map and stakeholder analysis in preparation for the upcoming Democratic-Republican National
Convention. Your unit of analysis is the Miami-Dade Police Department. Your analysis must follow these
steps:
Step 1: Describe and define your organization.
Step 2: Identify the key stakeholders.
Step 3: Identify the stakeholders’ interests and concerns.
Step 4: Identify the claims that stakeholders are likely to make on the organization.
Step 5: Identify which stakeholders are most important to your organization.
Step 6: Conduct a SWOT Analysis of your organization.
Step 7: Determine organizational strategy.
Step 8: Determine organizational policy.
Step 9: Recommend specific action.
First view the Module 5 AVP on stakeholder analysis. Next, review "Stakeholder Analysis – A Nine Step
Approach" in Doc Sharing.
As part of this assignment, you are to design a stakeholder map that depicts the stakeholder
environment of your organization on a single page. Refer to the "Guide for Designing Stakeholder Maps"
in Doc Sharing for examples of other stakeholder maps. There is no one universal way of designing
stakeholder maps. Use your creativity. Your stakeholder map must be embedded as a single page (either
inserted or copied and pasted) into the body of your written assignment.
Your narrative should go beyond the obvious and be written at a graduate level. Your paper should be
no less than 1,200 words, and no more than 2,500 words. Any sources including but not limited to
journals, magazine, and/or books must be properly cited using the APA style. Click here to view the
scoring rubric for this assignment.