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| Criterion |  Systems Thinking Rich Picture |  Facilitation Power Interest Grid |  Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis |  Facilitation Stakeholder Salience Model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early. | 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. | CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way. | 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 | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 2-8 | 3-8 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Rich Picture, Problem Framing Notes | Power Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints | Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class |
Tagsno overlap | Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance |