SCORE
The SWOT checklist (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) is one of the most widely known and perhaps most widely-used of all strategic assessment tools. It's well suited to for quick assessments, particularly where a decision to go ahead with a project has in essence already been made. But it can be too simplistic, and in some cases dangerously misleading, when applied to more complex business contexts.
The
SCORE checklist - Tetradian's extension of SWOT - is designed to resolve these concerns: it has the simplicity of SWOT, but the versatility and flexibility of a full strategic tool:
- Strengths / services / support
- existing capabilities and resources, potential for synergies
- Challenges / needed capabilities
- ‘weaknesses’ indicate needed capabilities and resources
- Options / opportunities and risks
- opportunity is also risk, risk is also opportunity
- Responses / returns / rewards
- probable or emergent consequences of action or inaction
- Effectiveness
- efficient, reliable, elegant, appropriate, integrated
For more information, see the
Introduction to SCORE presentation (PDF, 186kb).
