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| Criterion |  Growth North Star Metric |  Growth Flywheel |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Facilitation Decision Jam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 60-120 min | 1-3 h | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-8 | 5-30 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | GrowthRetentionConversion | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop |