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Criterion
Paper illustration for Wideband Delphi.
Decision Making
Wideband Delphi
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for DACI
Decision Making
DACI
Purposedifferent
A single opinion rarely holds up for planning when the future is genuinely uncertain. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as an Estimate Range, Assumption Log, and Expert Consensus Notes.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 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.In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumHighLow
Timedifferent
1-4 h or multiple rounds60-90 min1-4 Wochen30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
4-12 Experten3-66-30 Experten2-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Estimate Range, Assumption Log, Expert Consensus NotesSalience Diagram, Strategy per ClassExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesDACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log
Tagsno overlap
EstimationExpertsForecasting
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment
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