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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 decision table with criteria rows, weighted ratings, and a narrowly leading alternative.
Decision Making
Decision Matrix
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.When several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared logic.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h1-4 Wochen45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-86-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic OptionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesDecision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected Option
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StrategyCompetitionMarket
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs
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Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
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
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis