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| Criterion |  Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |  Business Strategy SWOT Analysis |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | PESTLE Analysis makes political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental influences visible. The environment of an initiative is thereby read systematically instead of through isolated trends. | When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. | 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. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 60-180 min | 30-60 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 4-20 | 3-12 | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMarketAnalysis | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning | SensemakingDecisionRationale |