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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Strategy Map |  Growth Funnel Analysis |  Growth Hooked Model |  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. | When many visitors or users drop off along the way, the reason behind the number often stays hidden. Funnel Analysis exposes these transitions and makes visible exactly where the path collapses. | The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design. | 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 | 1-3 h | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 1-5 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Strategy Map, Objective Set, Cause-Effect Hypotheses | Funnel report, Drop-off analysis, Optimization hypotheses | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentExecutionGoalsCausality | AnalyticsConversionGrowth | GrowthBehaviorRetention | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |