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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix | ![]() Business Strategy Three Horizons | ![]() Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-12 | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Horizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource plan | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions |
Tags1 shared | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight | StrategyMarketAnalysis |
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