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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 of Spotify Model Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Spotify Model Mapping
Paper illustration of a six-field PESTLE grid
Business Strategy
PESTLE Analysis
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
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 a team landscape has grown without clear grouping, it maps roles and relationships onto the Spotify model. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Spotify model map and action 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.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min90-180 min1-3 h1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
3-125-152-104-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action listSpotify Model Map, Action ListPESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic QuestionsAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning
TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis
StrategyMarketAnalysis
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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