Analysis is the critical starting point of strategic thinking. Faced with problems, trends, or situations that appear to constitute a harmonious whole or come packaged as a whole by the common sense of the day, he strategic thinker dissects them into their constituent parts. Then, having discovered the significance of these constituents, he reassembles them in a way calculated to maximize his advantage.
In business as on the battlefield, the object of strategy is to bring about the conditions most favorable to one’s own side, judging precisely the right moment to attack or withdraw and assessing the limits of “compromise” correctly. Besides the habit of analysis, what marks the mind of the strategist is an intellectual elasticity or flexibility that enables him to come up with realistic responses to changing situations, not simply to discriminate with great precision among different shades of grey.
Steps in Strategic Thinking
- Pinpoint critical issue in the situation.
In problem solving, it is vital at the start to formulate the question in a way that will facilitate the discovery of a solution.
Limitation: The questions are not framed to point toward a solution; rather, they are directed toward finding remedies to symptoms.
Isolating the crucial points of the problem- in other words, determining the critical issue- is most important to the discovery of a solution.
The “key” at this initial stage is to narrow down the issue by studying the observed phenomenon closely.
Abstraction: Brainstorming, opinion polls used to assemble and itemize various analysis parameters or variables.
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