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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy Three Horizons | ![]() Business Strategy Value Chain Analysis | ![]() Agile Affinity Estimation |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Three Horizons helps clarify strategic options across different timeframes. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and investment choices, and captures the result as a horizon map, portfolio view, and initiatives per horizon. | Value Chain Analysis shows where value is created, costs accrue, and differentiation becomes possible along the process. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a value-chain map and lever list. | When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ | Half day | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-8 | 3-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Horizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource plan | Value Chain Map, Lever List | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight | StrategyBusiness modelDiagnosisAnalysis | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing |
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