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Strategic thinking

Strategic thinking involves creating a plan to achieve a team or organisation's objectives.

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

  • explain the strategic context of your work and why it is important
  • support strategic planning in an administrative capacity
2. Working

You can:

  • work within a strategic context and communicate how activities meet strategic goals
  • contribute to the development of strategy and policies
3. Practitioner

You can:

  • define strategies and policies, providing guidance to others on working in the strategic context
  • evaluate current strategies to ensure business requirements are being met and exceeded where possible
4. Expert

You can:

  • lead the design and implementation of strategy, directing the evaluation of strategies and policies to ensure business requirements are being met

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

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Role levels that expect this skill

Role levelRoleBandExpected level
Trainee business architectBusiness architect6Awareness
Associate business architectBusiness architect7Working
Business architectBusiness architect8aPractitioner
Lead business architectBusiness architect8bPractitioner
Deputy chief clinical information officerChief clinical information officer8dPractitioner
Chief clinical information officerChief clinical information officer9Expert
Head of clinical informaticsClinical informatician8cPractitioner
Data architectData architect8aAwareness
Senior data architectData architect8bWorking
Chief data architectData architect8cPractitioner
Data governance managerData governance manager7Working
Lead data governance managerData governance manager8bPractitioner
Head of data governanceData governance manager8cExpert
Digital portfolio analystDigital portfolio manager5Awareness
Digital portfolio managerDigital portfolio manager6Awareness
Senior digital portfolio managerDigital portfolio manager8aWorking
Head of digital portfolioDigital portfolio manager8cPractitioner
Junior frontend developerFrontend developer5Awareness
Frontend developerFrontend developer6Working
Senior frontend developerFrontend developer7Practitioner
Lead frontend developerFrontend developer8bExpert
Head of frontend developmentFrontend developer8cExpert
IT service analystIT service manager4Working
IT service managerIT service manager6Working
Senior IT service managerIT service manager7Practitioner
Head of IT service managementIT service manager8bExpert