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| Criterion |  Growth Funnel Analysis |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many visitors or users drop off along the way, the reason behind the number often stays hidden. Funnel Analysis exposes these transitions and makes visible exactly where the path collapses. | 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. | 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. | For products with complex usage paths, overall growth alone is too coarse to reveal bottlenecks. Pirate Metrics breaks the relationship with the product into consecutive stages and shows where the funnel actually leaks. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 30-60 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 4-12 | 2-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Funnel report, Drop-off analysis, Optimization hypotheses | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog |
Tagsno overlap | AnalyticsConversionGrowth | StrategyMetricsExecution | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | GrowthMetricsExperiments |