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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Strategy Execution Loop |  Facilitation Storytelling |  Facilitation Stakeholder Salience Model |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Strategy Execution Loop helps avoid treating strategy as a one-off document. It makes visible how strategic decisions are turned into objectives, initiatives, operational work, measurement, and learning. | When an insight needs to have an effect, storytelling translates dry facts into a comprehensible development. It combines context, tension, and consequence into a form that people remember and pass on more easily. | 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Initial 3-6 h, then monthly or quarterly reviews | 45-120 min | 60-90 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 1-6 | 3-6 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Execution Loop, Review Cadence, Strategic Learning Log | Narrative Outline, Key Message, Story Arc | Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | ExecutionCadenceLearningGovernance | CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |