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Independent contributions form an ordered group priority list.
Facilitation
Nominal Group Technique
Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Purposedifferent
When loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting.For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service.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 many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy.
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60-120 min1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen60-90 min30-60 min
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WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
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Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group PriorityProblem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsSalience Diagram, Strategy per ClassPower Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder
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FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion
InnovationPrototypeResearch
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning
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