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| Criterion |  Business Strategy TOWS Matrix |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Growth Hooked Model |  Business Strategy SWOT Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The TOWS Matrix connects internal strengths and weaknesses with external opportunities and threats into action-oriented strategies. It goes a step further than a pure stocktaking. | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 45-90 min | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | TOWS Matrix, Strategic Options, Priority Actions | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyAnalysisOptions | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | GrowthBehaviorRetention | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning |