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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard | ![]() Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis | ![]() Engineering Goal Question Metric | ![]() Business Strategy SWOT Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. | 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. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. | 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 | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-3 h | 90-180 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-10 | 3-6 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMetricsExecution | StrategyMarketAnalysis | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning |



