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

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis	Business Strategy Value Chain Analysis	Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix
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.	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.	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.	The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	High	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-3 h	Half day	45-90 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-10	3-8	2-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions	Value Chain Map, Lever List	Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	StrategyMarketAnalysis	StrategyBusiness modelDiagnosisAnalysis	GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio

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