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| Criterion |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |  Facilitation Decision Jam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | 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. | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 45-90 min | 1-3 h | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-30 | 2-8 | 2-10 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | StrategyMarketAnalysis | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop |