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| Criterion | ![]() Product Strategy Impact Mapping | ![]() Facilitation Stakeholder Salience Model | ![]() Growth North Star Metric | ![]() Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy. | 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. | 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 | 45-90 min | 60-90 min | 1-2 h | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-6 | 3-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |



