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Stakeholder

As explained in The Art of AI Product Development

A person or group within or connected to an organization that can influence, support, constrain, or be affected by an initiative.

A stakeholder is a person or group who can influence, support, constrain, or be affected by an initiative. AI products make stakeholder work more demanding because they combine interdisciplinary teams, uncertainty, and human–machine interaction. section 12.0

Align communication with each stakeholder group’s priorities:

  • Coordinate engineers, data scientists, domain experts, and UX designers around technical feasibility and business objectives. section 12.0
  • Translate AI complexity into business outcomes for executives, sales, marketing, and customer success teams. section 12.2
  • Address legal, compliance, and ethics concerns with clear evidence about data protection, bias detection, fairness, and limitations. section 12.2.4

Predictive supply-chain platform

Mark coordinates a platform that predicts demand and optimizes inventory. He earns support by explaining business value in plain language, acknowledging early quality problems, and answering compliance questions about anonymized order data, regional bias, and unbalanced predictions. section 12.0 section 12.2.4

How The Art of AI Product Development covers it

How deep it goes
Explains stakeholder groups and communication tactics through practical scenarios, but stops short of formal governance frameworks.
Examples
Uses a logistics forecasting platform, executive and sales buy-in, and a compliance review of anonymized data and regional bias.
What you can do after
Evaluate stakeholder priorities and communicate AI value, limitations, safeguards, and risks in clear, audience-specific language.
How it connects
Connects stakeholder work to cross-functional collaboration, business strategy, customer communication, compliance, bias, and data protection.

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