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Criterion
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Purposedifferent
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 knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.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.
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LowHighHigh
Timedifferent
30-60 min1-4 WochenHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen
Participantsdifferent
2-66-30 Experten4-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
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Counter Metric List, Guardrail DefinitionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map
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Paper illustration of KPI Tree with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
KPI Tree
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis
Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
Engineering
Goal Question Metric