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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Decision Making Decision Matrix |  Business Strategy Three Horizons |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | When several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared logic. | Three Horizons helps clarify strategic options across different timeframes. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and investment choices, and captures the result as a horizon map, portfolio view, and initiatives per horizon. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ | 45-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Decision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected Option | Horizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource plan | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs | StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions |