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Criterion
Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
A paper-based illustration representing North Star Metric with its core stages and visible working result.
Growth
North Star Metric
Paper illustration for Flywheel.
Growth
Flywheel
Paper illustration of Hooked Model with its method-specific working model.
Growth
Hooked Model
Purposedifferent
With high tempo and many parallel topics, the method makes status, deviations, and priorities visible at a glance. It reduces search effort and prevents what matters from getting lost in daily work.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.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing1-2 h60-120 minMultiple workshops over several weeks
Participantsdifferent
1-203-83-82-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesNorth Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadenceFlywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment BacklogHooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check
Tagsno overlap
SignalsOperationsVisual management
GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention
GrowthRetentionConversion
GrowthBehaviorRetention
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