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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Strategy Map |  Growth Flywheel |  Operations Getting Things Done |  Growth North Star Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | A Strategy Map translates strategy into a few connected objectives across perspectives such as finance, customers, processes, and learning. This makes visible which capabilities and activities are meant to drive which results. | 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. | With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h workshop plus review | 60-120 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-8 | 1 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Strategy Map, Objective Set, Cause-Effect Hypotheses | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Action Lists, Project List, Review Routine | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentExecutionGoalsCausality | GrowthRetentionConversion | ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |