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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Business Strategy Three Horizons |  Systems Thinking Futures Wheel |  Business Strategy Business Model Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | 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 Futures Wheel helps explore the consequences of a decision, a trend, or a strategic move in a structured way. It makes visible which first, second, and third-order effects could arise from an event. | The Business Model Canvas condenses a business model to its key building blocks and assumptions. It makes variants quickly comparable and reveals gaps before validation or implementation begins. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ | 60-120 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-12 | 3-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Horizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource plan | Futures Wheel, Consequence Chains, Strategic Signals | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight | ForesightSystems thinkingSignals | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation |