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| Criterion |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Decision Making Force Field Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | 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. | 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. | In change initiatives, supporting and restraining forces sit at the table at the same time. Force Field Analysis makes these tensions explicit and shows where change can be pushed forward by strengthening or relieving. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 45-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-8 | 3-10 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Force Field Map, Change Levers, Risk Notes |
Tagsno overlap | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ChangeDecisionStrategy |