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| Criterion |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Growth Flywheel |  Growth North Star Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. | 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 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 | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 60-120 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-12 | 3-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsExperiments | StrategyMetricsExecution | GrowthRetentionConversion | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |