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Criterion
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Paper illustration for DACI
Decision Making
DACI
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration for RAPID
Decision Making
RAPID
Purposedifferent
When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together.In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated.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 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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min30-60 min60-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-122-103-63-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsDACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision LogSalience Diagram, Strategy per ClassRAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationOptionsDecision
DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
DecisionRolesGovernance
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