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| Criterion |  Growth Hooked Model |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 2-4 h | 90-180 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-12 | 3-6 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthBehaviorRetention | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |