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| Criterion |  Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |  Growth Flywheel |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Business Strategy SWOT Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 60-120 min | 1-5 Tage | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 3-8 | Nutzertraffic | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMarketAnalysis | GrowthRetentionConversion | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning |