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Criterion
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
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 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 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.In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min1-4 Wochen60-90 min90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
2-86-30 Experten3-64-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Power Interest Grid, Strategy per StakeholderExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesSalience Diagram, Strategy per ClassDecision Rights Matrix, Agreement
Tagsno overlap
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility
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