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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy Porter Five Forces | ![]() Product Strategy GIST Planning | ![]() Business Strategy SWOT Analysis | ![]() Product Strategy Impact Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 30-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-10 | 3-12 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic Options | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyCompetitionMarket | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |



