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Criterion
Paper illustration of a SWOT matrix with four separated quadrants and marked strategic options.
Business Strategy
SWOT Analysis
Paper illustration for Option Framing.
Decision Making
Option Framing
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
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.In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question.When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.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
LowMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min45-120 min60-120 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-123-84-102-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action listOption Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision InputsDecision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence PlanPESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions
Tagsno overlap
StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning
OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison
Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
StrategyMarketAnalysis
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