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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | PESTLE Analysis makes political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental influences visible. The environment of an initiative is thereby read systematically instead of through isolated trends. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-3 h | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-10 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | StrategyMarketAnalysis | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |
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