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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Ansoff Matrix Value Chain Analysis SWOT Analysis

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix	Business Strategy Value Chain Analysis	Business Strategy SWOT Analysis
Purposedifferent	ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.	The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other.	Value Chain Analysis shows where value is created, costs accrue, and differentiation becomes possible along the process. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a value-chain map and lever list.	SWOT Analysis arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats into a compact picture of the situation. It keeps internal capabilities and external influences separate before strategic options emerge from them.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	High	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	45-90 min	Half day	30-60 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8	3-8	3-12
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes	Value Chain Map, Lever List	SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio	StrategyBusiness modelDiagnosisAnalysis	StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning

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