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| Criterion |  Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |  Engineering Kanban |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  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. | When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable. | When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together. | 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 | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | Ongoing | 1-4 Wochen | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 2-12 | 6-30 Experten | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMarketAnalysis | FlowVisual managementDelivery | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning |