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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Stakeholder Salience Model | ![]() Operations 5 Whys | ![]() Operations Root Cause Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | For a single, hard-to-explain deviation, the method exposes the causal chain behind the visible symptom. It keeps the cause open until a controllable condition emerges instead of a mere description. | When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-90 min | 15-30 min | 1-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-6 | 2-6 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class | Root cause notes, Countermeasures | Problem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan |
Tagsno overlap | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance | Root causeIncidentLeanProblem solving | Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident |
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