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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Product Discovery Assumption 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. | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | 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 | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 45-60 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-12 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | StrategyMetricsExecution | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | GrowthMetricsExperiments |