خلاصة:
Strategic thinking plays a very important role in ensuring survival and progress in today's changing and dynamic environment; it is also a tool that helps managers create new opportunities. The role of managers in the strategic planning process and decision-making depends on how they think, and strategic planning frameworks only provide the questions whose answers are based on the managers' methodology and their thinking in decision-making. The aim of the present research is to identify and analyze the key factors affecting strategic thinking as a core competency in the organization. In this study, first, by reviewing the research literature, 23 key factors (competencies) of strategic thinking were extracted, and then by distributing a questionnaire among professors and experts related to the subject, their opinions regarding the selection of more important key factors or the addition of other factors were queried, which ultimately identified 8 key factors. After identifying the final key factors, the effectiveness and mutual relationships between these factors were also queried from experts and professors related to this field, and finally, using a combined approach of the Grey System Theory and the DEMATEL method, the research data were analyzed. The results show the degree of influence, susceptibility, and interaction of the factors and their grouping into causal and effect factors.
ملخص الجهاز:
thinking as a core competency in organizations Roxana Kashani1 Gholam Abbas Shekari2 Abstract / Strategic thinking plays a very important role in ensuring survival and progress in today's changing and dynamic environment; also, strategic thinking is a tool that helps managers create new opportunities.
In addition, in this research, a hybrid DEMATEL-Grey method was used to analyze the reciprocal relationships of key factors affecting strategic thinking as a core competency in organizations, in which considering the input data as a range of uncertain numbers (grey numbers) is a specific feature of applying grey theory in this hybrid approach.
Scale of linguistic variables, weight importance of factors and their gray values (Refer to the page image) After distributing the questionnaires among professors and experts related to the field of management (strategic), 34 completed questionnaires were collected for the analysis of reciprocal relationships among the key factors (competencies) of strategic thinking.
Research Findings In this research, the key factors affecting strategic thinking as a core competency in organizations were collected according to the literature and research background, and based on the opinions of professors and experts, 8 main and important factors were finally identified, which are: (1) foresight (vision), (2) insight in thinking, (3) systems thinking, (4) ability to combine ideas and information, (5) creativity and innovative thinking, (6) technological environment, (7) organizational culture, and (8) organizational climate.
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