105+ Business Frameworks

Analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats with strategic implications

Analyze macro-environmental factors affecting the business

Analyze competitive forces in the industry

Analyze Company, Customer, and Competitor dynamics

Analyze organizational alignment across 7 elements

Evaluate resources for sustainable competitive advantage

Portfolio analysis for product/business units

Multi-factor portfolio analysis

Growth strategy options analysis

Value innovation through Eliminate-Reduce-Raise-Create grid

One-page business model for startups

Comprehensive 9-block business model visualization

Analyze activities that create value

Identify potential failure points before they happen

Explore multiple future scenarios

Identify recurring systemic patterns

Analyze types and strength of network effects

Analyze customer lock-in factors

Evaluate competitive moat and defensibility

Identify critical turning points (Andy Grove)

Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning framework

Analyze the marketing mix elements

Map the customer experience across touchpoints

Visualize competitive positioning

Identify the competitive strategy type

Map brand perception in consumer minds

Market size estimation framework

Identify buying triggers (Byron Sharp)

Understand buying decisions from customer perspective

Evaluate ability to maintain/increase prices

Categorize features by customer satisfaction impact

Understand the 'job' customers hire the product for

Structured approach to experimentation

Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort scoring

Must-Should-Could-Won't feature prioritization

Google's UX metrics framework

Habit-forming product design (Nir Eyal)

Organize features around user journey

Connect outcomes to opportunities to solutions

Dan Olsen's PMF framework

Identify the one metric that matters most

Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Revenue, Referral

Framework for analyzing user cohorts

Identify and optimize conversion funnels

Classify and optimize retention patterns

Identify self-reinforcing growth loops

Evaluate freemium strategy effectiveness

Analyze viral growth potential

Map the sales process stages

Enterprise sales qualification framework

Classify and optimize revenue model

Understand and reduce customer churn

Evaluate pricing tier structure

Estimate and optimize customer LTV

Evaluate unit economics health

Upsell and cross-sell strategy

Analyze per-unit profitability

Analyze variable cost structure

Evaluate cash management

Discounted cash flow thinking

Analyze customer payback timing

Map risks by likelihood and impact

Benchmark against peers

Test assumptions and scenarios

Evaluate ability to scale efficiently

Clarify roles and responsibilities

Objectives and Key Results structure

Hierarchical metrics structure

Structured problem-solving approach

Urgent vs Important prioritization

Identify and exploit bottlenecks

Find and fix operational constraints

Structured delegation approach

Change management framework

Goal-Reality-Options-Will framework

Identify biases in product/marketing

Loss aversion and framing analysis

Analyze social influence tactics

Second and third-order consequences

Unintended spread of effects

Multiple factors creating extreme outcomes

Multi-disciplinary thinking framework

Design of decision environments

Leverage fear of loss

Identify critical mass dynamics

Emergent behavior analysis

Self-reinforcing growth patterns

State changes in systems

Positive and negative feedback dynamics

Minimum viable scale dynamics

Network structure analysis

80/20 principle application

Exponential distribution patterns

Compound effects over time

Innovation through job understanding

Systematic innovation methodology

Rogers adoption curve analysis

Human-centered innovation process

Diverge-converge innovation process

Customer-value alignment tool

Checklist for market entry decisions

Evaluate potential partnerships

Evaluate founder advantage in market

Craft compelling business narrative