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| Criterion |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |  Business Strategy SWOT Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For products with complex usage paths, overall growth alone is too coarse to reveal bottlenecks. Pirate Metrics breaks the relationship with the product into consecutive stages and shows where the funnel actually leaks. | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | 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. | 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 | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 45-90 min | 1-3 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-8 | 2-10 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsExperiments | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | StrategyMarketAnalysis | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning |