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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing North Star Metric with its core stages and visible working result.
Growth
North Star Metric
Paper illustration of Strategy Map with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Strategy Map
Paper illustration of Hooked Model with its method-specific working model.
Growth
Hooked Model
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.A Strategy Map translates strategy into a few connected objectives across perspectives such as finance, customers, processes, and learning. This makes visible which capabilities and activities are meant to drive which results.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-2 h2-4 h workshop plus reviewMultiple workshops over several weeks
Participantsdifferent
3-84-102-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadenceStrategy Map, Objective Set, Cause-Effect HypothesesHooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check
Tagsno overlap
GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention
AlignmentExecutionGoalsCausality
GrowthBehaviorRetention
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Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
Engineering
Goal Question Metric
Paper illustration of KPI Tree with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
KPI Tree