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| Criterion | ![]() Growth Funnel Analysis | ![]() Product Strategy GIST Planning | ![]() Growth Flywheel | ![]() Product Strategy Impact Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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 goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 60-120 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 3-10 | 3-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Funnel report, Drop-off analysis, Optimization hypotheses | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | AnalyticsConversionGrowth | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | GrowthRetentionConversion | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |



