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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy McKinsey 7S | ![]() Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | 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. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 60–90 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |
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