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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Porter Five Forces |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Business Strategy SWOT Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Porter Five Forces analyzes the forces that shape competitive pressure and profitability in a market. The view of market structure goes beyond individual competitors and reveals systemic pressure points. | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | 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 |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic Options | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyCompetitionMarket | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning |
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