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Criterion
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration for TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
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 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.For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowHighMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min60–90 min1-4 h60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-82-82-83-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Power Interest Grid, Strategy per StakeholderStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesContradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsSalience Diagram, Strategy per Class
Tagsno overlap
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
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