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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Systems Thinking Leverage Points |  Engineering Goal Question 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. | Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | Half day | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 3-12 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Leverage Map, Action Strategy | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMetricsExecution | Systems thinkingChangeStrategy | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |
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