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Selected:Stakeholder Mapping Stakeholder Salience Model Architecture Communication Canvas Alignment Mapping

Criterion	Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping	Facilitation Stakeholder Salience Model	Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas	Facilitation Alignment Mapping
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.	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.	The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.	When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.
Complexitydifferent	Low	Medium	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	60–90 min	60-90 min	60-120 min	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	2-8	3-6	2-8	4-12
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes	Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class	Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan	Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tags1 shared	StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange	StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance	ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas	AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation

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