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Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Gemba Walk workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Gemba Walk
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Purposedifferent
Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures.When there is uncertainty about the real course of a process, the method brings observation to the place where work happens. It combines perception, follow-up questions, and process knowledge so decisions rest on actual workflows instead of assumptions.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
2-4 h30-120 min60–90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-82-62-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixObservation Notes, Improvement IdeasStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration for 3-Circle Venn Diagram
Facilitation
3-Circle Venn Diagram