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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy Strategy Execution Loop | ![]() Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard | ![]() Architecture Architecture Decision Record | ![]() Product Strategy Counter Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Strategy Execution Loop helps avoid treating strategy as a one-off document. It makes visible how strategic decisions are turned into objectives, initiatives, operational work, measurement, and learning. | 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. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Initial 3-6 h, then monthly or quarterly reviews | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 15-45 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 4-12 | 1-3 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Execution Loop, Review Cadence, Strategic Learning Log | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tagsno overlap | ExecutionCadenceLearningGovernance | StrategyMetricsExecution | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |



