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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Business Strategy Porter Five Forces |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | Porter Five Forces analyzes the forces that shape competitive pressure and profitability in a market. The view of market structure goes beyond individual competitors and reveals systemic pressure points. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic Options |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | StrategyCompetitionMarket |
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