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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Business Strategy Scenario Planning |  Business Strategy Three Horizons |  Systems Thinking VUCA Scan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path. | 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. | The VUCA Scan helps read difficult situations more precisely. Instead of treating unclarity as generally complicated, the method separates fast change, missing knowledge, systemic entanglement, and ambiguous interpretation. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 0.5-2 Tage | Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-12 | 3-12 | 1-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust Options | Horizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource plan | VUCA Map, Response Options, Signal and Learning Plan |
Tags1 shared | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | StrategyUncertaintyPlanning | StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight | SensemakingUncertaintyComplexityStrategyForesight |