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Criterion
Paper illustration for TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
Purposedifferent
For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles.When many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific 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
HighLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 h30-60 min60–90 min60-120 min
Participantssame
2-82-82-82-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsPower Interest Grid, Strategy per StakeholderStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept Ideas
Tagsno overlap
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
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