A stakeholder is defined as the role of an individual, team, or organization (or classes thereof) that represents their interests in, or concerns relative to, the outcome of the architecture.

A stakeholder has one or more interests in, or concerns about, the organisation and its enterprise architecture.

The name of a stakeholder should preferably be a noun.

Category:

Motivation

Examples:

CEO, the board of directors, shareholders, customers, business, and application architects

Typical Relationships:

Composition, Aggregation, Specialisation