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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 Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder 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 expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
30-60 minHalf day initial, dann laufend60–90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-12Ein Team plus Stakeholder2-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action listTeam API DocumentStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration for Expectation Mapping.
Facilitation
Expectation Mapping
Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S
Paper illustration of a six-field PESTLE grid
Business Strategy
PESTLE Analysis