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Paper illustration of a six-field PESTLE grid
Business Strategy
PESTLE Analysis
Paper illustration for Flywheel.
Growth
Flywheel
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
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.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h60-120 min20-35 min
Participantsdifferent
2-103-81-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic QuestionsFlywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment BacklogTest Card with a pre-set threshold
Tagsno overlap
StrategyMarketAnalysis
GrowthRetentionConversion
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
Business Strategy
Ansoff Matrix
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test