What is SLOPE?

SLOPE is an organizational management tool for the new Millennium.  It replaces and outshines popular SWOT analysis and allows organizations to conduct their own analyses without the need to hire expensive consultants.

SLOPE helps organizations assess their:

S trengths,
L imitations and the
O bstacles they face, to help them achieve their
P otential
E xcellence

In this era of rapid technological change and increased globalization, there is a need for more flexible and dynamic organizational assessment because popular decision-making tools such as SWOT cannot keep up with the changing environment. In fact, they only serve consultants who conduct expensive environmental scans, strategic plans and situational analyses that quickly go out-of-date—leading to more expensive analyses by consultants. Since all organizations must be able to adapt to rapidly changing environments, what is needed is an inexpensive, simple, and effective tool that can be used at any level or layer of any organization—profit and non-profit, alike. That tool is SLOPE (Strengths, Limitations, Obstacles and Potential Excellence). SLOPE is a new strategy formation tool that uses a metaphor and dynamic story elements to provide a snapshot of an organization at any moment in time and can be re-applied in the same manner to assess the impact of previously made decisions.