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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Business Strategy SWOT Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When experiences build up over days or weeks and a single session cannot capture them, Diary Study records the course of everyday life. Recurring triggers, moods, and habits become visible this way, beyond the sharpness of memory. | 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. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 1-3 h | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 2-10 | 3-10 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | StrategyMarketAnalysis | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning |