Strategic Thinking
It involves understanding the big picture, making connections and deciphering trends to unique business insights.
- Understand the Context
- Connect Ideas and people
- Reflect on need and impact of actions
- Make choices about what to do and what not to do.
Benefits
- Envision team and organizational direction to achieve long term sustainable goals
- Use limited resources efficiently for your project
- Solve problems by thinking about the root cause
- Develop innovative solutions for your organization's business problems
- Survive in a dynamic business environment by anticipating and dealing with changes
- Understand business strategies and your role in meeting business goals.
Approach
Scan the environment(What can you see today?)
- Determine the kind of information to analyze
- Recognize and assess possible relationships, patterns and alternatives
- Combine your analysis with intuition and experience to determine impact
Decide Direction
- What steps to take?
- What functionalities, tools, audience segments to target?
- What offerings to focus on?
- What business areas to prioritize?
- What challenges and outcomes to address?
- What development activities to undertake?
Skills :
Effective communication Lateral Thinking Analytical Thinking Critical Thinking