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| Criterion |  Business Strategy SWOT Analysis |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Agile ROAM Board |  Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | SWOT Analysis arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats into a compact picture of the situation. It keeps internal capabilities and external influences separate before strategic options emerge from them. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 1-2 h | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-12 | 3-15 | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | ROAM Board, Owner List | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | StrategyMarketAnalysis |