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Criterion
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Purposedifferent
When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.When many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-2 h2-4 h1-4 Wochen30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
4-123-126-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change ActionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesPower Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder
Tagsno overlap
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning
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