VadiK teachings Vadim Kotelnikov

7 Principles of
Strategic Thinking

Vadim Kotelnikov, founder of 1000ventures - personal logo VadiK

Inventor Business e-Coach

Author Innoball

Founder Innompic Games icon

 

 

① Focus on your vision to keep noticing things related to it.

 

Proactive Futuring

 

 

 

② Focus on the whole, not the parts, find relationships between elements.

 

Holistic Thinking

 

 

 

③ Think systemically, combine intuition and data, analytical thinking with synthetical thinking to find system-wide focus.

 

Systemic Thinking

Strategic Creativity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

④ Search for synergies among business units, functions, processes, innovations, and partners.

 

 

 

⑤ Look beyond the obvious, search for connections between situations that are not obviously related.

 

 

 

 

⑥ Change perceptual positions, step out of your shoes and into the shoes of other stakeholders – customers, competitors, partners, investors – to surface new insights.

 

 

 

⑦ Balance the short and long term, generate short term wins, and consolidate gains... More

 

 

Strategic choices are the decisions made by individuals or organizations about how to allocate their resources in order to achieve their vision or strategic goals.

 

Strategic Choices and Strategic Time Management

 

 

 

Holistic thinking is the ability to see things as a whole (or holistically), to understand and predict the many different types of relationships between the many elements in a complex system (example), and also perceive  the whole picture through sensing its large-scale patterns.

 

Synthetical thinking is deliberately finding repeating patterns (or common themes) across a system or situation.