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Anticipation and Strategic Thinking
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Author: Todd Royer
Topic: Careers
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Anticipation and Strategic Thinking
Career development is about constructing a future that grows
your professional responsibilities and rewards. The day-to-day
nuts and bolts of career development are about a far more
persistent yet mundane type of future awareness. Anticipation is
an important key to understanding business. And anticipation is
the means of getting control of everyday management.
Recently I spoke with a quality assurance director. He was
telling me how he uses strategic thinking in his department.
He's responsible for all the materials used in manufacturing at
his company; and that includes manufacturing that may be hired
out to other companies. To efficiently check all incoming
materials at all manufacturing locations, he needed to know
where the ingredients came from before they were shipped.
Otherwise he was left to checking paperwork at the receiving
dock. To get ahead of the shipments he needed an extensive log
of all the supplier companies his company used as vendors. He
found that his purchasing department already had such a log.
But, that wasn't the end of it. He anticipated that distributors
would at times switch their suppliers; therefore he went to each
distributor and requested a list of their suppliers for the
ingredients he was purchasing. With that list he could audit all
the sub-suppliers and know in advance the quality of their
products. He had contacts at each of those companies if problems
arose. Basically, he anticipated problems and set up a system to
resolve those problems quickly as they arose.
The key to strategic thinking is to see how things move along in
a progression. If you can look backwards and see how the current
situation developed and then attempt to anticipate the next
steps, you've become visionary. With this type of historical
vision, you can compare present circumstances with previous
circumstances, looking for differences that might need
attention. The strategic part is to build a plan that uses the
vision and the analysis for best results. ? by Todd Royer. All
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A list of Career Development articles by Todd Royer are
available for reprint at: http://www.toddroyerwriting.com
About the author:
Todd Royer is a seasoned career development specialist. He is
experienced in managing organizational growth by recruiting
competent confident people. Currently he is Senior Partner at
DiscoveryTech, Technical Recruiting.
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