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Criterion
Paper illustration of a SWOT matrix with four separated quadrants and marked strategic options.
Business Strategy
SWOT Analysis
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis
Paper illustration of a six-field PESTLE grid
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 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.In change initiatives, supporting and restraining forces sit at the table at the same time. Force Field Analysis makes these tensions explicit and shows where change can be pushed forward by strengthening or relieving.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.
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Timedifferent
30-60 min1-4 Wochen45-90 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-126-30 Experten3-122-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action listExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesForce Field Map, Change Levers, Risk NotesPESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions
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StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
ChangeDecisionStrategy
StrategyMarketAnalysis
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