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Paper illustration of Porter’s five competitive forces
Business Strategy
Porter Five Forces
Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
GIST Planning
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.Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h0.5-2 TageWochen bis Monate je Goal
Participantsdifferent
2-84-123-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic OptionsScenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsGoals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports
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StrategyCompetitionMarket
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments
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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
Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
Business Strategy
Ansoff Matrix
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Gap Analysis method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
GAP Analysis