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| Criterion |  Growth Flywheel |  Product Strategy SMART Goals |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  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 goals are formulated too generally, it brings measurability, direction, and timing into shape. It prevents intentions from staying without clear verification. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 15-30 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 1-8 | 3-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | SMART Goal, Measurement Note, Deadline | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthRetentionConversion | GoalsPlanningMeasurementAlignment | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |