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| Criterion |  UX Research Customer Journey Mapping |  Delivery Communication Plan |  Facilitation Stakeholder Salience Model |  Facilitation Storytelling |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a user journey falls apart across many touchpoints, customer journey mapping makes the experience visible as a coherent arc. Phases, emotions, and breaks become legible enough to prioritize critical moments deliberately. | When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost. | 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 an insight needs to have an effect, storytelling translates dry facts into a comprehensible development. It combines context, tension, and consequence into a form that people remember and pass on more easily. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 45-90 min | 60-90 min | 45-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-6 | 3-6 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Journey Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity Backlog | Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence | Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class | Narrative Outline, Key Message, Story Arc |
Tagsno overlap | JourneyServiceService design | CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance | CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation |