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Criterion
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper illustration of Value Chain Analysis with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Value Chain Analysis
Paper illustration of Hooked Model with its method-specific working model.
Growth
Hooked Model
Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
Business Strategy
Ansoff Matrix
Purposedifferent
When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures.Value Chain Analysis shows where value is created, costs accrue, and differentiation becomes possible along the process. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a value-chain map and lever list.The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design.The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other.
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Timedifferent
45-90 minHalf dayMultiple workshops over several weeks45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
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WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsValue Chain Map, Lever ListHooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics checkAnsoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
StrategyBusiness modelDiagnosisAnalysis
GrowthBehaviorRetention
GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio
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