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| Criterion |  Growth Flywheel |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping |  Growth North Star Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 1-3 h | 90-180 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 5-30 | 4-12 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthRetentionConversion | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |