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| Criterion |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Growth North Star Metric |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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. | For products with complex usage paths, overall growth alone is too coarse to reveal bottlenecks. Pirate Metrics breaks the relationship with the product into consecutive stages and shows where the funnel actually leaks. | 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 | 2-4 h | 1-2 h | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-8 | 2-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | GrowthMetricsExperiments | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |