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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Strategy Execution Loop |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Growth Growth Experiment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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 growth ideas surface quickly, the temptation to build immediately instead of learning is high. A Growth Experiment frames an assumption so target group, lever, and measurement are clear before the first deployment. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Initial 3-6 h, then monthly or quarterly reviews | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-5 Tage | 1-2 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Execution Loop, Review Cadence, Strategic Learning Log | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Experiment card, Result summary, Next bet |
Tagsno overlap | ExecutionCadenceLearningGovernance | GrowthMetricsExperiments | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | MarketingGrowthExperimentsLearning |