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| Criterion | ![]() Product Strategy Lean Canvas | ![]() Growth Flywheel | ![]() Operations Gemba Walk | ![]() Growth Hooked Model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | 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 there is uncertainty about the real course of a process, the method brings observation to the place where work happens. It combines perception, follow-up questions, and process knowledge so decisions rest on actual workflows instead of assumptions. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 60-120 min | 30-120 min | Multiple workshops over several weeks |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | 3-8 | 2-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Observation Notes, Improvement Ideas | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check |
Tagsno overlap | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | GrowthRetentionConversion | LeanObservationProcessOperations | GrowthBehaviorRetention |



