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| Criterion |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 45-90 min | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-10 | 2-8 | 4-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsExperiments | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | StrategyMetricsExecution |