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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Delivery Monte Carlo Forecasting |  Business Strategy Porter Five Forces |  Engineering Kanban |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication. | 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. | When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-90 min Setup, danach laufend | 1-3 h | Ongoing |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-8 | 2-8 | 2-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk Communication | Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic Options | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | ForecastingFlowDelivery | StrategyCompetitionMarket | FlowVisual managementDelivery |