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| Criterion | ![]() Product Strategy Impact Mapping | ![]() Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping | ![]() Growth Hooked Model | ![]() Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 60–90 min | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | GrowthBehaviorRetention | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange |



