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| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling PARA Method |  Business Strategy Three Horizons |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Business Strategy Business Model Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The PARA Method organizes knowledge into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. It creates order when digital notes, files, and tasks no longer cleanly fit current work. | 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. | 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. | The Business Model Canvas condenses a business model to its key building blocks and assumptions. It makes variants quickly comparable and reveals gaps before validation or implementation begins. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h Setup, laufend | Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ | 2-4 h | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 1 | 3-12 | 3-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge Archive | Horizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource plan | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | KnowledgeProductivityOrganization | StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation |