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| Criterion |  Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |  Innovation Design Charrette |  Business Strategy SWOT Analysis |  Innovation Starbursting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space. | 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 ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | Halber Tag bis mehrere Tage | 30-60 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 10-50 | 3-12 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions | Sketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMarketAnalysis | BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery |