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Paper illustration of a SWOT matrix with four separated quadrants and marked strategic options.
Business Strategy
SWOT Analysis
Paper illustration of a six-field PESTLE grid
Business Strategy
PESTLE Analysis
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
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.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.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.
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Timedifferent
30-60 min1-3 h1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
3-122-106-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action listPESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic QuestionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
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Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
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Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
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Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
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