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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard | ![]() Growth Flywheel | ![]() Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping | ![]() Growth North Star Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth. | 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 | High | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 60-120 min | 60–90 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 3-8 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMetricsExecution | GrowthRetentionConversion | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |



