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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | For products with complex usage paths, overall growth alone is too coarse to reveal bottlenecks. Pirate Metrics breaks the relationship with the product into consecutive stages and shows where the funnel actually leaks. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-2 h | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | GrowthMetricsExperiments |
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