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| Criterion |  Systems Thinking Futures Wheel |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis |  Facilitation Stakeholder Salience Model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Futures Wheel helps explore the consequences of a decision, a trend, or a strategic move in a structured way. It makes visible which first, second, and third-order effects could arise from an event. | 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. | CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 60–90 min | 45-90 min | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 3-8 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Futures Wheel, Consequence Chains, Strategic Signals | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints | Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class |
Tagsno overlap | ForesightSystems thinkingSignals | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance |