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Paper illustration of Strategy Map with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Strategy Map
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Purposedifferent
A Strategy Map translates strategy into a few connected objectives across perspectives such as finance, customers, processes, and learning. This makes visible which capabilities and activities are meant to drive which results.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
2-4 h workshop plus review45-90 min60–90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-102-82-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Strategy Map, Objective Set, Cause-Effect HypothesesAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning PlanStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
AlignmentExecutionGoalsCausality
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
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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 Problem Framing Workshop.
Facilitation
Problem Framing Workshop
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model