Strategy frameworks

Strategy tools and frameworks

• VRMG - vision / strategy / tactics framework
• SCORE - strategic assessment / review tool

Vision, role, mission, goal

One of the key concerns about standard business strategy-frameworks such as the Business Rules Group's Business Motivation Model is that they start too far down, as if the organisation is the sole centre of the world. The VRMG framework we use starts much higher, at a level that makes it possible to build strategies even for complex, distributed, multi-partner enterprises.

For more information, see:

• the VRMG page
• the Vision, role, mission, goal presentation (PDF, 203kb).

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 (Strengths, Challenges, Options, Responses, Effectiveness) - 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.

For more information, see:

• the SCORE page
• the Introduction to SCORE presentation (PDF, 186kb).