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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  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. | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 2-4 h | 90-180 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-12 | 3-6 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |