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Criterion
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for 3-Circle Venn Diagram
Facilitation
3-Circle Venn Diagram
Purposedifferent
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.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.When three perspectives matter at the same time, a Three-Circle Venn Diagram shows the overlaps and remainders precisely. It makes visible where shared effect arises and where only a partial perspective applies.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumHighLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min1-2 h1-4 Wochen15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
2-84-126-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Power Interest Grid, Strategy per StakeholderAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesVenn Diagram, Overlap Notes, Differentiators
Tagsno overlap
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
ComparisonFacilitationAlignment
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