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Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Purposedifferent
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.A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.
Complexitydifferent
LowHigh
Timedifferent
60–90 min2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
2-83-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
Tagsno overlap
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration for Theory of Constraints Thinking Process.
Systems Thinking
Theory of Constraints Thinking Process