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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  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. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. | 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 | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 30-60 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-10 | 2-6 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | GrowthMetricsExperiments |