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Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
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.With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects.When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
60–90 min45-120 min60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
2-82-84-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesTrade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted DownsidesDecision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan
Tagsno overlap
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions
Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of a decision table with criteria rows, weighted ratings, and a narrowly leading alternative.
Decision Making
Decision Matrix
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats