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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Growth Flywheel |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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. | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 60-120 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-8 | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMetricsExecution | GrowthMetricsExperiments | GrowthRetentionConversion | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio |