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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Growth North Star Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. | When product teams track many metrics, the view of the actual customer outcome easily gets lost. A North Star Metric bundles growth, usage, and value contribution into one signal that makes the system's direction visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 60–90 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-12 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | StrategyMetricsExecution | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |