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Paper illustration for TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
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 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 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.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.
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Timedifferent
1-4 h60-90 min60-120 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
2-83-62-84-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsSalience Diagram, Strategy per ClassContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept IdeasAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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