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| Criterion |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Business Strategy SWOT Analysis |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 30-60 min | 90-180 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-12 | 3-6 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tagsno overlap | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |