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| Criterion |  Operations Visual Management |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With high tempo and many parallel topics, the method makes status, deviations, and priorities visible at a glance. It reduces search effort and prevents what matters from getting lost in daily work. | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | When a team wants to deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood. | When improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-20 | 2-8 | 3-12 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception Cues | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | SignalsOperationsVisual management | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |