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Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction 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.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 a system should improve while another measure suffers as a result, the method makes the underlying conflict precisely formulable. It separates the desired effect from its side effect. This makes solutions possible that address the contradiction deliberately instead of half-heartedly.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
60-90 min60–90 min60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
3-62-82-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Salience Diagram, Strategy per ClassStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept Ideas
Tagsno overlap
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration for 3-Circle Venn Diagram
Facilitation
3-Circle Venn Diagram