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| Criterion |  Growth Flywheel |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Growth Hooked Model |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. | The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 20–45 min | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | Small cross-functional group | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthRetentionConversion | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | GrowthBehaviorRetention | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions |