You are the business analyst for your organization and need a method to requirements elicitation from nearly 12,000 stakeholders. You want a method to quickly capture this group's feelings and…

Interviews are one-on-one or small-group conversations that are highly time-intensive, making it logistically impossible to conduct meaningful interviews with 12,000 stakeholders in any reasonable timeframe.

Trend analysis involves examining historical data to identify patterns over time and is not an elicitation technique for capturing current stakeholder needs or feelings about a new solution.

Focus groups involve small facilitated group discussions typically ranging from 6 to 12 participants, which cannot practically scale to capture input from 12,000 stakeholders.

Surveys allow a business analyst to distribute standardized questionnaires to an unlimited number of stakeholders at once, making them the only practical technique for gathering input from a group as large as 12,000 people. They can be distributed electronically, completed asynchronously, and analyzed statistically to identify the majority needs and preferences of a large population. No other common elicitation technique can reach this scale with comparable speed and cost efficiency.