Frequently Asked Questions about Stakeholder Mapping
Why do I need to add actors to the stakeholder mapping?
Adding stakeholders to a segment, provides a higher level of granularity to the stakeholder mapping, it provides concrete faces to a segment. By adding concrete actors, you will experience a more complete view and more support of the tooling in suggesting relevant actors and providing interesting news.
When is the mapping complete?
The mapping is complete when you are meeting your research goals and your aree able to validate the key assumptions. When conducting a market scan, you might only want to add one or two very concrete stakeholders. When you develop the innovation landscape, you might want to be as exhaustive as possible.
What information sources are used for the actor profiling?
DataScouts uses a wide range of structured and unstructured data sources incl.
Company Directors like KVK, KBO
Startups Directors like Crunchbase, Seedtable
Patent registries like Netscape
Funding databases like CORDIS
Data from the company website
Is DataScouts scraping infromation?
Yes, DataScouts is gathering publicly available data fromt he company website in order to provide a complete actor profile incl.
accurate description
company contact details
social media handles