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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)GAP Analysis Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas SWOT Analysis

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Business Strategy GAP Analysis	Business Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas	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.	GAP Analysis compares the current state with a target picture and makes the distance manageable. It becomes useful when, ahead of new initiatives, it must become clear which capabilities, processes, or resources are missing.	The Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas shows how an offering is positioned relative to the market. Differentiation thereby becomes tangible in value factors instead of merely being claimed.	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	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-3 h	2-4 h	30-60 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8	3-10	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	Gap Matrix, Action Plan, Risk Notes	Strategy Canvas, Value Curve, ERRC Actions	SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	StrategyAnalysisPlanning	StrategyPositioningInnovationValue	StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning

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