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Criterion
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Purposedifferent
Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.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 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 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.
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HighHighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen1-4 Wochen60-90 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
4-126-30 Experten3-64-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesSalience Diagram, Strategy per ClassAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
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StrategyMetricsExecution
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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