The Stakeholder Perspective, Second Edition is both a continuation and a renewal. It preserves the spirit of the first edition—humanistic, systemic, stakeholder-centered—while taking it into the domain of data and intelligent systems. It recognizes that the biggest challenge in managing projects and stakeholders today is figuring out how to blend human skills with technology in smart systems so that people and machines work together to create and share value by balancing efficiency with purpose, understanding data analysis, and using AI responsibly and ethically. Nevertheless, the augmented capacity for managing relations effectively, interpreting and giving real meaning, and properly taking care of stakeholders’ increased requirements and expectations remains, as ever, absolutely human. Aligned with the latest project management standards, the book focuses on the determinant role of the stakeholders in the process of value generation, perception, and delivery. Taking the view that