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| Criterion | ![]() Decision Making RAPID | ![]() Business Strategy McKinsey 7S | ![]() Facilitation Stakeholder Salience Model | ![]() Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 2-4 h | 60-90 min | 60–90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-12 | 3-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes |
Tagsno overlap | DecisionRolesGovernance | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange |



