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    <h4 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px;">Acting Strategically</h4>

<p style="margin-bottom: 22px;">The ability to constantly reassess your business environment. It is the ability to evaluate by looking at the company&#39;s strategy, customers, competition, and industry trends, as well as analyzing departments internal challenges and positions. In the end, it is the ability to gather and assess extensive information to estimate the changes that must be made today in order to generate the desired results tomorrow. Strategic thinking and acting is an ongoing process.</p>

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	 Synonyms: Strategic Thinking, Critical Thinking
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  <p class="bold">Key Actions of Individuals with This Skill</p>
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      <li>Demonstrates understanding of key industry, market, resource, technology, regulatory trends and conditions and their implications for the business</li>    
      <li>Brings cross-disciplinary knowledge to bear on issues and opportunities</li>    
      <li>Clearly establishes &#39;mission intent&#39;, the mission end state and the key tasks the organization must accomplish to achieve it</li>    
      <li>Creates measures that accurately reflect the success of the strategy and execution of the processes needed to drive it</li>    
      <li>Creates strategies to balance short-term requirements with long-term business plans</li>    
      <li>Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the organization&#39;s mission, strategies, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats</li>    
      <li>Develops a vision, purpose, mission, and strategy for the business unit consistent with its role in the success in the organization</li>    
      <li>Displays a current and future understanding of customer needs</li>    
      <li>Evaluates and pursues initiatives, investments, and opportunities based on their fit with broader strategies</li>    
      <li>Exhibits a deep understanding of the business value proposition</li>    
      <li>Identifies competitive differentiators</li>    
      <li>Identifies the business processes that are key to the success of the strategy</li>    
      <li>Integrates organizational strategies to achieve and sustain competitive advantage</li>    
      <li>Makes certain that initiatives and priorities are integrated with one another and aligned with the direction and strategic priorities of the broader organization</li>    
      <li>Manifests a strong knowledge of target customers</li>    
      <li>Manifests a strong knowledge of the pivotal roles necessary to executes the strategy</li>    
      <li>Pursues initiatives to capitalize on strengths and market opportunities, and to counter competitive threats</li>    
      <li>Renders a strong knowledge of competitors&#39; strengths and weaknesses</li>    
      <li>Shows a strong historical perspective about the industry, It&#39;s growth, and its trends</li>    
      <li>Spots potential competitors and threats to the organization&#39;s market position</li>    
      <li>Stays abreast of key competitors&#39; actions and their implications for or threats to the business</li>    
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  <p class="bold">Interview Prep Questions</p>
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  	  <li>Describe a time when you had to clearly establishes mission intent, the mission end state and the key tasks the organization had accomplish to achieve it.</li>
  	  <li>Describe a time when you had to integrate organizational strategies into unit plans to achieve and sustain the larger organization&#39;s competitive advantage.</li>
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