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Paper illustration of Porter’s five competitive forces
Business Strategy
Porter Five Forces
Paper illustration of a six-field PESTLE grid
Business Strategy
PESTLE Analysis
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.PESTLE Analysis makes political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental influences visible. The environment of an initiative is thereby read systematically instead of through isolated trends.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h1-3 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-82-102-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic OptionsPESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic QuestionsDecision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected Option
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StrategyCompetitionMarket
StrategyMarketAnalysis
DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs
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Paper illustration of a SWOT matrix with four separated quadrants and marked strategic options.
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SWOT Analysis
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
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Ansoff Matrix
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
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