StrategyMatrix / portfolioAnsoff’s matrix and product market gridHow can ansoff’s matrix and product market grid support strategic choice or positioning?The appropriate route to corporate growth depends on the risk the organisation can accept, its current portfolio of products and markets, and whether it intends to build around existing or new offers and customers. Systematic planning begins with a clear view of the distance between today’s position and the desired future one. The product/market grid and the later Ansoff cube help managers describe that gap and identify possible growth directions.IntermediateStrategicFigures
OperationsMatrix / portfolioProbability/Impact MatrixHow can probability/impact matrix support strategic choice or positioning?Prioritise risks recorded in a programme risk register.AccessibleStrategicTemplateFigures
Organisational behaviourMatrix / portfolioFocus–energy matrixHow can focus–energy matrix improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?Use the matrix to diagnose why effort is not producing action and to design a response. It describes four behavioural states:AccessibleTacticalFigures
Organisational behaviourMatrix / portfolioCore quadrantsHow can core quadrants improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?Use the model for self awareness, development, teamwork and conflict preparation. It makes strengths, pitfalls, challenges and “allergies” easier to recognise in yourself and others, helping explain why another person’s useful behaviour can trigger a disproportionate reaction.AccessibleTacticalFigures
FinanceMatrix / portfolioModern portfolio theoryHow can modern portfolio theory support strategic choice or positioning?To structure discussion of asset allocation and diversification.AccessibleStrategicFigures
OperationsMatrix / portfolioCovey’s time matrix (Eisenhower)How can covey’s time matrix (eisenhower) improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?Use the matrix instead of a flat to do list when competing demands require explicit prioritisation.AccessibleTacticalFigures
People & OrganisationMatrix / portfolioManager time-and-energy portfolioHow should a manager allocate work by importance, urgency, difficulty, and energy effect?AccessibleStrategic
People & OrganisationMatrix / portfolioCapabilities and energy inventoryWhich abilities are strong, learned, energizing, draining, or important to develop?AccessibleOperational
Organisational behaviourMatrix / portfolioMatrix managementHow can matrix management improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?To coordinate work that genuinely depends on more than one organisational dimension.AccessibleStrategic