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| Criterion | ![]() Product Strategy GIST Planning | ![]() Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix | ![]() Business Strategy Three Horizons |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | Three Horizons helps clarify strategic options across different timeframes. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and investment choices, and captures the result as a horizon map, portfolio view, and initiatives per horizon. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 45-90 min | Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Horizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource plan |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight |
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