Strategic
What is strategy?
A plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before the defeat. -- from "The Art of War"
Strategy is the overarching plan or set of goals you are hoping to achieve, and changing them is a slow, difficult, but still possible process. Tactics are the specific actions or steps you undertake to accomplish that strategy. Strategy defines your long-term goals, and how you're planning on achieving them.
Strategy defines your long-term goals, and how you’re planning on achieving them. The strategy gives you the path you need toward achieving your company’s mission.
Tactics are concrete, and oriented toward smaller steps and a shorter time frame along the way. For your organization, tactics involve the best practices, specific plans, resources, and all other initiatives you use along the path towards achieving the organizational mission.
The central difference between strategy and tactics: Think of strategy as the destination and how you are going to get there, and tactics as the specific actions you are going to take along the way.
| Strategic Thinking |
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| Incubate new tech practices & tools |
| Create right team dynamics to drive org goals, priorities |
| Key Stakeholder relationships and frequent communication between partners and stakeholders |
| Lead by understanding, advocating & committing to org objectives, vision, strategy |
| Anticipate future trends & implications |
| Articulate credible picture & vision of possibilities to create & sustain values |
4 Key Items to being ready for the next level and to be successful:
Build high performing teams
- Not teams that like you, teams that can perform exceptionally with or without you
- Knowing how to leverage the strengths of the individuals on the team
- Minimizing the opportunities of the individuals on the team
Set a clear vision for your team
- Engage and inspire them to achieve it
- Empower them to be a part of it and achieve it
Build strong relationship
- Up, down and sideways with equal importance
- Influence without authority
- Gaining buy-in from stakeholders
If we focus on the above 3 then the following will take care of itself:
Service Management
- Run your business well
- Continuously improve your business
- Know when to drive in details and when not to