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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. | 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. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 15-45 min | 30-60 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 1-10 | 2-6 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMetricsExecution | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |