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Criterion
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration for TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration for 3-Circle Venn Diagram
Facilitation
3-Circle Venn Diagram
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.For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles.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.When three perspectives matter at the same time, a Three-Circle Venn Diagram shows the overlaps and remainders precisely. It makes visible where shared effect arises and where only a partial perspective applies.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighMediumLow
Timedifferent
60–90 min1-4 h60-90 min15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
2-82-83-62-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesContradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsSalience Diagram, Strategy per ClassVenn Diagram, Overlap Notes, Differentiators
Tagsno overlap
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
ComparisonFacilitationAlignment
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