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| Criterion |  Growth Flywheel |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | 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. | When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 45-120 min | 1-3 h | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-8 | 5-30 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthRetentionConversion | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions |