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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix | ![]() Systems Thinking Leverage Points | ![]() Business Strategy Three Horizons | ![]() Systems Thinking Future Reality Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy. | 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. | A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Half day | Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-12 | 3-12 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Leverage Map, Action Strategy | Horizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource plan | Future Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | Systems thinkingChangeStrategy | StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight | Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange |



