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Paper illustration of Porter’s five competitive forces
Business Strategy
Porter Five Forces
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
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
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.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
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h30 min Setup, dann laufend45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-81-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic OptionsRAID Log, Status Report SourceImpact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options
Tagsno overlap
StrategyCompetitionMarket
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
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Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
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