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Selected:Causal Loop Diagram Ansoff Matrix ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Wardley Mapping

Criterion	Systems Thinking Causal Loop Diagram	Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Systems Thinking Wardley Mapping
Purposedifferent	A Causal Loop Diagram makes feedback, reinforcement, and balance in a system legible. It uncovers side effects and self-reinforcement that stay hidden in linear explanations.	The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other.	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.	Wardley Mapping makes visible where an offering stands today and where it can evolve. The method connects user need, value chain, and evolution stages into a strategic basis for platform, build, or buy decisions.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	1-3 h	45-90 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-3 h
Participantsdifferent	2-8	2-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-10
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Causal Loop Diagram, Feedback Notes, Leverage Points	Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Wardley Map, Strategic Options, Evolution Notes
Tagsno overlap	FeedbackSystems thinkingCausalityDynamics	GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	StrategySystems thinkingDynamics

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