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| Criterion |  Growth Hooked Model |  Operations Waste Analysis |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Growth North Star Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For a process that keeps people busy but creates little value, the method exposes waste. It directs attention to unnecessary movement, waiting times, rework, and overdelivery. | When delivery work dissolves into wait times, handoffs, and hidden effort, Value Stream Mapping makes the actual flow visible. The method exposes bottlenecks, idle time, and feedback loops so lead time and improvement levers become tangible. | 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 | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 45-120 min | 1-3 h | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-8 | 4-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | Waste Map, Prioritized Waste, Improvement Backlog | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthBehaviorRetention | WasteLeanProcess improvement | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |