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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy Business Model Canvas | ![]() Innovation Design Sprint | ![]() Business Strategy SWOT Analysis | ![]() Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Business Model Canvas condenses a business model to its key building blocks and assumptions. It makes variants quickly comparable and reveals gaps before validation or implementation begins. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | 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. | 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 | Medium | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 4-5 Tage | 30-60 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 5-8 | 3-12 | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions |
Tagsno overlap | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning | StrategyMarketAnalysis |



