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Paper illustration of Porter’s five competitive forces
Business Strategy
Porter Five Forces
Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
GIST Planning
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
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.GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 hWochen bis Monate je Goal1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
2-83-101-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic OptionsGoals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reportsExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summary
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StrategyCompetitionMarket
RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
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Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
Business Strategy
Ansoff Matrix
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check