STRATEGIC
ANALYSIS
AND
INTUITIVE
THINKING
What will you do?
You have an upcoming quiz in 2 of your subjects
tomorrow. Your first period is 6:00 am. The first quiz will
be 7:00 am and the other one will be 8:00 am. You are
too tired and came home late from work and you are not
sure how you will be able to review. It’s already 1:00 am.
What will you do?
Your gasoline is running empty. The gauge states as if it
can only run for more or less than 600 meters. The
nearest gasoline station is 650 meters from your home.
It’s already 7:00 am and your first class 7:30 am. Your
school is 1.2 km from your home.
What color is behind the circle?
Red or Green?
What color is behind the circle?
Red or Green?
Where is the sun?
Left or Right?
Where is the sun?
Left or Right?
STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
• is a process of examining and identifying a
problem/threats using rational thinking, conceptualizing
with systematic and step-by-step process
• used to analyze an organization to formulate a strategic
planning in achieving goal/aims
STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
• a process of conducting research to identify problems
in the environment to formulate a strategy for creating
solutions
Strategic-analytical thinking involves time,
uses abstract and criteria, brain-centered to see the big
picture of the environment to formulate strategy in
achieving goal.
INTUITIVE THINKING
• is a “quick and ready insight”
• a kind of thinking that examines and understands a
certain problem without using logical reasoning or
rational thinking.
INTUITIVE THINKING
• referred to as your gut feeling, your instinct, senses and
years of experiences that can help to create solutions in
a certain problem in an organization or in the
community
GREAT QUOTES FROM
PERSONALITIES
• ALBERT EINSTEIN
“There is no logical way to the discovery of these
elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which
is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the
appearance.”
GREAT QUOTES FROM
PERSONALITIES
• ALEXIS CARREL
“All great men are gifted with intuition. They know
without reasoning or analysis what they need to know.”
GREAT QUOTES FROM
PERSONALITIES
• LAO TZU
“The power of intuitive understanding will protect you
from harm until the end of your days.”
KEY COMPONENTS OF
STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
KEY COMPONENTS OF
STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
• TOOL ANALYSIS
used to help in the formulation of strategy
the common tool used is the SWOT analysis and the
PEST analysis
KEY COMPONENTS OF
STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
• RATIONAL
being logical in examining a situation
• SYSTEMATIC
there is a step-by-step process in identifying
problems
KEY COMPONENTS OF
STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
• GOALS
talk about the purpose
• SYSTEMATIC
clarifies the ways in which our daily work will help
move the goals forward.
KEY COMPONENTS OF
INTUITIVE THINKING
KEY COMPONENTS OF
INTUITIVE THINKING
• LACK OF RATIONALIZATION
creates solutions without logical reasoning
• NON-SEQUENTIAL
there is no step-by-step process in planning
KEY COMPONENTS OF
INTUITIVE THINKING
• INSIGHTS
uses to understand a person, thing or a situation with
the help of senses
• GUT FEEL
a quick reaction without logical rationale
KEY COMPONENTS OF
INTUITIVE THINKING
• EXPERIENCES
can help to understand the situation because trained
experiences
APPLYING STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
Strategy is important in solving a problem.
Being strategic means you are logical. Applying strategic
analysis will help a community or an organization. It
takes time to create solution because of there are steps
and processes to be followed.
SWOT ANALYSIS
S - Strengths
W - Weaknesses
O - Opportunities
T - Threats
SWOT ANALYSIS
• Internal Factors
are factors within the company, the strength and
weakness of the company/organization
• External Factors
are factors outside the company that affects the plan
of the company/organization
PEST ANALYSIS
P - Political
E - Economic
S - Social
T - Technological
PEST ANALYSIS
is a tool used in an organization that can assess major
external factors that influence its operation in order to
achieve goal and be competitive
PEST ANALYSIS
• Political
includes rules, regulations, laws and politics
imposed by the government which affects the
organization.
• Economic
covers purchasing power, interest rate inflation,
employment and unemployment rates
PEST ANALYSIS
• Socio-cultural
includes people’s preferences, needs, demographics,
attitudes and cultural backgrounds
• Technological
includes those related to technological innovation
and their impacts.
CREATIVE SOLUTIONS USING
INTUITIVE THINKING
Intuitive thinking is the ability to understand
the reality without using logical reasoning. It uses years
of experiences and your senses to create solution to a
certain problem in the community. You can actually
create solution without using tool analysis as long as
there’s a lot of experiences and expertise and at the same
time social networks that can be used to do so.
CREATIVE SOLUTIONS USING
INTUITIVE THINKING
• Social Network
is a set of social actors (such as individual or
organization, institutions) in a social structure that
interacts with each other
CREATIVE SOLUTIONS USING
INTUITIVE THINKING
In the map of social networks, it helps us to
examine and understand situations which can identify
problems/threats in a certain community, since these
networks are interrelated. Institutions like politics,
economic, cultural and even kinship ties help to examine
and identify problems in making creative solutions.
