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Paper illustration of Porter’s five competitive forces
Business Strategy
Porter Five Forces
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
Business Strategy
Ansoff Matrix
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
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.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.The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-3 h1-4 Wochen45-90 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
2-86-30 Experten2-82-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic OptionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesAnsoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk NotesDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report
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StrategyCompetitionMarket
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
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