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Here's how you can cultivate strategic thinking within your IT Operations team.

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In today's fast-paced digital landscape, IT Operations teams are the backbone of any successful organization. They ensure that all technological systems function smoothly and efficiently. However, beyond the day-to-day management, fostering strategic thinking within your team can lead to innovative solutions and a competitive edge. Strategic thinking involves looking at the bigger picture, anticipating future trends and challenges, and preparing accordingly. By encouraging this mindset, your team can move from being reactive to proactive, ensuring long-term success and stability.

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1 Embrace Vision

To nurture strategic thinking, start by setting a clear vision for your IT Operations team . This vision should align with the broader company goals and provide a roadmap for where you want the team to be in the future. It's crucial to communicate this vision effectively, ensuring everyone understands their role in achieving it. Encourage your team members to consider how their daily tasks contribute to the larger objectives and to think about ways to improve processes and technologies that align with the long-term vision.

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Everyone either needs their own vision or to follow someone else’s vision. In the lack of a clear vision articulated by the leader, your best people may move to a team or a company where such a vision exists. Articulated vision is key for success, so is checking in that your team has understood and bought in.

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2 Foster Curiosity

Curiosity is the fuel for innovation and strategic thought. Encourage your team to ask questions and explore how different technologies can create value for the business. This could involve staying updated with the latest IT trends , attending webinars, or participating in think tanks. By promoting a culture of learning and exploration , you enable your team to anticipate changes in the IT landscape and adapt their strategies accordingly. Curiosity will also lead them to challenge the status quo and think of ways to improve existing systems and processes.

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An example of fostering curiosity is sharing ideas over lunch in a structured way, but meant to be non-threatening, also called brown bag lunches. Folks are meant to be safe enough to share in a place where food is eaten and shared. Explaining rules and encouraging participation is key, or it becomes another spectator sharing session.

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3 Promote Collaboration

Strategic thinking thrives in an environment where collaboration is valued. Encourage your team to work together on projects, share insights, and learn from one another. Cross-functional collaboration with other departments can also provide fresh perspectives and a deeper understanding of how IT operations impact the entire organization. By fostering a collaborative culture, you create a think-tank environment where collective strategic thinking can lead to more comprehensive and innovative solutions.

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Based on my experience to activate dynamic workplace culture and enhances employee engagement and performance, you need to add some gamification to the work results with the principles of the collaboration. For this you can create artifacts like: mottoes, goals, symbols, awards, or posters that portray the team as one unit. And of course you want to foster Empathy in the Workplace. People need to have time and space for a communication and feedbacks to each other. So in our IT team we like to have a O2O processes.

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4 Encourage Risk-Taking

Strategic thinking often involves taking calculated risks . Encourage your team to propose bold ideas that could potentially transform operations, even if they come with risks. It's important to create a safe space where team members feel comfortable sharing unconventional ideas without fear of failure or ridicule. When risks are taken and they pay off, celebrate those wins; when they don't, treat them as learning opportunities. This approach will help build a resilient team that's not afraid to push boundaries for the sake of improvement.

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Creating an internal forum for aafe public speaking provides a massive stretch. Volunteering your team members for user groups speaking or sharing fosters this critical skill. Always ensure that emotional buyin is gained so that this does not become a form of corporate bullying or elitism.

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5 Analyze Outcomes

To cultivate strategic thinking, it's essential to analyze the outcomes of your team's initiatives. This means not just celebrating successes but also critically examining why certain strategies worked or didn't work. Encourage your team to look at data and feedback to understand the impact of their actions. This will help them refine their approach and make better-informed decisions in the future. Regularly reviewing outcomes also keeps the team focused on the vision and allows for adjustments in strategy as needed.

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Analyzing outcomes is an excellent way to share your thoughts and expectations with your team as well as to gather what your teams thoughts and expectations were. This is key for understanding why something worked or what became a roadblock to success, also this can foster greater teamwork that in the long run is a building block for more successful outcomes.

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Totally agree. In our team a good Retrospective is the part of the process. To make the right conclusion for future and correct the results it’s essential to analyze the actions. Also to understand why certain strategies worked or didn't you need to analyze past, present, and future events, ask the right questions and identifying opportunities. Sometimes experiments and hypothesis give the good results after the right corrections, and as a results long term strategic goals can be archived.

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6 Lead by Example

Lastly, as a leader in IT Operations, your behavior sets the tone for your team. Demonstrate strategic thinking in your actions and decision-making process. When you approach challenges with a strategic mindset, you inspire your team to do the same. Be transparent about your thought process and how you consider long-term implications in your decisions. By leading by example , you'll instill the values of strategic thinking into your team's culture, making it a natural part of their everyday work.

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Your team will learn from your actions and will reflect your results. The people you work with pay a lot of attention to what you say —and what you do. If what you're doing and saying are inconsistent, that inconsistency can lead to frustration and lack of trust. Leading by example is important because it inspires and motivates team members, builds honesty, trust, and credibility, and promotes a positive work environment committed to continuous improvement.

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7 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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To grow the team’s strategic thinking the leader should ask questions rather than answer them, involving team to the big game and to focus on highest value work rather than “block and tackle”. It’s important openly discuss worst-case scenarios, ask the question of “Why?” and walk through different scenarios and potential risks.

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5 Analyze Outcomes

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1 Embrace Vision

2 Foster Curiosity

3 Promote Collaboration

4 Encourage Risk-Taking

5 Analyze Outcomes

6 Lead by Example

7 Here’s what else to consider

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