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| Criterion |  Growth North Star Metric |  Delivery Communication Plan |  Facilitation Stakeholder Salience Model |  Facilitation Storytelling |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost. | 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 an insight needs to have an effect, storytelling translates dry facts into a comprehensible development. It combines context, tension, and consequence into a form that people remember and pass on more easily. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 45-90 min | 60-90 min | 45-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-6 | 3-6 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence | Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class | Narrative Outline, Key Message, Story Arc |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance | CommunicationNarrativeStakeholdersFacilitation |