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Criterion
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper illustration for Storytelling
Facilitation
Storytelling
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Purposedifferent
In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.When an insight needs to have an effect, storytelling translates dry facts into a comprehensible development. It combines context, tension, and consequence into a form that people remember and pass on more easily.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 people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
20–45 min45-120 min60-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
Small cross-functional group1-63-62-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logNarrative Outline, Key Message, Story ArcSalience Diagram, Strategy per ClassCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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