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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Strategy Map |  Growth Flywheel |  Decision Making RAPID |  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. | In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | 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 | 45-90 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-8 | 3-12 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Strategy Map, Objective Set, Cause-Effect Hypotheses | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentExecutionGoalsCausality | GrowthRetentionConversion | DecisionRolesGovernance | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |