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| Criterion |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Systems Thinking Rich Picture |  Systems Thinking Leverage Points |  Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60–90 min | 30-90 min | Half day | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-10 | 3-12 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Rich Picture, Problem Framing Notes | Leverage Map, Action Strategy | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints |
Tagsno overlap | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization | Systems thinkingChangeStrategy | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders |