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Criterion
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper mind map with a central course onboarding question, colored main branches, keywords and cross-links.
Facilitation
Mind Mapping
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of several people silently writing ideas and passing sheets around with arrows.
Innovation
Brainwriting
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.When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early.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.When loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
60-90 min15-45 min1-2 h15-30 min
Participantsdifferent
3-61-104-123-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Salience Diagram, Strategy per ClassMind Map, Topic Clusters, Open QuestionsAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsIdea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized list
Tagsno overlap
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas
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