Strategic Thinking.

Strategic thinking

Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking Kenichi Ohmae

Strategic thinking as a thought process

Strategic thinking is a thought process where the goal is always in the mind. When the goal is clear, finding out the way,to achieve it requires profound thinking.

SWOT Analysis for Strategic thinking

To set a goal, ‘WHY” plays an important role. You assign a timeline to accomplish small chunks of the goal. But staying prepared and anticipating accordingly to the questions asked on the journey path, SWOT Analysis is a must.

SWOT Analysis technique help you in ascertaining your strength. you become more aware about the weakness. By analyzing and pre-assessing one gets fully prepared to avail the opportunities. Also the threat analysis allows one to either overcome the barrier or seek an alternative and better path to access the desired position. The barriers of life act as a stepping stone. It elevates the potential by initiating a thought process focused on accomplishment of the goal. It inculcates creativity in the thought process. The characteristics of Strength and weakness are internal to the person which he can control. However Opportunities and threats are system generated and should be cleverly tackled considering the external factors.

While travelling on a road unknown, one is bound to confront different turns, some times safe and at times unwelcoming. Re-evaluating and adapting according  new information becomes vital To have a strategic mindset,-questioning assumptions is critical. Why do we do it that way? Asking questions on habits and practices in a targeted way, This will allow you to uncover new ideas and efficiencies. Observing the big picture, the macro trends

In order to ascend up the ladder and obtain a leadership position, Strategic Thinking becomes an essential tool by drawing a path map to achieve the objective. It is important to understand the re-evaluation and re-implementation part is significant and very vital in context of changing conditions. Question your assumptions all the time cause your actions should rely on facts and data. Observing is another important aspect. This will allow you to gain insights on your path by looking at others actions. If people are more serious about something that you didn’t value much, asking targeted question will create a bigger picture.

Tactics

Continuously pondering over and consistent with activities that keep you occupies in the endeavor to accomplish your goal. These activities which keeps the focus intact are tactics. It becomes imperative for one to free the attention from diverting activities and align to things which makes one to work towards the goal.

While present day activity is essential to succeed, however the mistakes, learning and experience from past with a purpose to foresee future opportunities and resolve problems by recognizing and anticipating the trends from past is critical. The answers to today’s “why” is hidden in yesterday’s past. The success of the past will reveal the factors that let you succeed. To pull the hidden, a profound interpretation of past is essential. Make sure to dig more than one reason to analyze the past.

Keep the track of today’s trends to perceive the future, This will help you in developing a plan, Reading helps in benefiting with other’s insight. The forum, communities such as Quora gives you the opportunity to network with well informed people.

A strategic mindset is to think actively considering all the pros and cons of the options considered. An out of box thinking creates unusual solutions in unorthodox circumstances. The out of box thinking comes with having a better understanding of the situations,