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Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Purposedifferent
When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time.When stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h1-3 h60-90 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-85-303-64-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleConsensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority AreasSalience Diagram, Strategy per ClassProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
SensemakingDecisionRationale
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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