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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 RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.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.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
LowLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min30 min Setup, dann laufend1-2 h1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-121-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone4-122-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action listRAID Log, Status Report SourceAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsPESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions
Tagsno overlap
StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
StrategyMarketAnalysis
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