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Criterion
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Purposedifferent
When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.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 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.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighMediumLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview1-4 Wochen60-90 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview6-30 Experten3-62-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesSalience Diagram, Strategy per ClassPower Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning
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