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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Business Strategy Three Horizons |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  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. | 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. | 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 | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 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 | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation |