Glossary
Formalize the stakeholder network with a mind map

Actor

As defined in the thesis by Julie Stal-Le Cardinal (2000), a professor at École Centrale, an actor is a human being who is part of the means of the "enterprise". Thus, actors :

• have skills, quantified by a level ;

• can make decisions;

• are able to characterize a priori the effect of their actions;

• can perform tasks to achieve a goal;

• work with other players (in partnership, by delegating, as part of a team).

Mind map

The mind map (or carte heuristique or CH) is a 2D tree-like cartographic representation designed to structure or share an idea, or to enrich it over time by suggesting multidimensional approaches....