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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  Business Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas |  Business Strategy SWOT 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 an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | The Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas shows how an offering is positioned relative to the market. Differentiation thereby becomes tangible in value factors instead of merely being claimed. | SWOT Analysis arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats into a compact picture of the situation. It keeps internal capabilities and external influences separate before strategic options emerge from them. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 2-4 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-6 | 3-10 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Strategy Canvas, Value Curve, ERRC Actions | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | StrategyPositioningInnovationValue | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning |