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Paper illustration of a six-field PESTLE grid
Business Strategy
PESTLE Analysis
Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
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.Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path.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.
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Timedifferent
1-3 h0.5-2 Tage1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
2-104-126-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic QuestionsScenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
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StrategyMarketAnalysis
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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Gap Analysis method illustration showing its working structure
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Paper illustration of a SWOT matrix with four separated quadrants and marked strategic options.
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