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Criterion
Paper illustration of Porter’s five competitive forces
Business Strategy
Porter Five Forces
Paper illustration for NoEstimates.
Agile
NoEstimates
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
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 estimating slows a team down more than it helps, it shifts the focus to flow, small slices, and real lead time. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, and Slicing Rules.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHighLow
Timedifferent
1-3 hlaufend1-4 Wochen45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-82-126-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic OptionsThroughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing RulesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesAnsoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
StrategyCompetitionMarket
EstimationForecastingFlow
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio
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