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| Criterion |  Product Strategy OKRs |  Growth Flywheel |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Growth North Star Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When strategic direction needs to become measurable, it connects ambition with checkable results. It makes goals connectable to focus and review. | 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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup | 60-120 min | 1-5 Tage | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-20 | 3-8 | Nutzertraffic | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | OKR set, Measurement plan, Review cadence | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | GoalsAlignmentOutcomesMeasurement | GrowthRetentionConversion | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |