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Criterion
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
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 h1-3 h45-90 min1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
2-82-102-86-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic OptionsPESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic QuestionsDecision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected OptionExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
Tagsno overlap
StrategyCompetitionMarket
StrategyMarketAnalysis
DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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