Strategist
Encyclopedia
A design strategist has the ability to combine the innovative
, perceptive
and holistic insights of a designer
with the pragmatic and systemic
skills of a planner
to guide strategic direction in context of business needs, brand
intent, design
quality and customer values.
An economic strategist is a person who can create a sustainable commercial advantage by applying innovative and quantitative
ideas and systems at a sell side
financial institution.
A trading strategist contributes revenue
to the business in which his team is embedded by developing and delivering innovative trade ideas, models and analytic
systems to the trading desk.
A 'sport strategist' is a professional that do films, organizing the video-library, apply a scout and analysis of the players for a team. The idea is to promote a innovations of attack and defensives of players using the cooperations with the head-coaches. Its usual find strategist in Judo, Soccer, Baseball, Football and Volleyball.
Working closely with investment managers, a principal investment strategist contributes revenue by providing principal investment analytics
and alternative product structuring.
A sales strategist develops innovative trade ideas and assists in the marketing
of those trades to buy side
clients.
A banking strategist partners with investment bankers and capital market experts on corporate finance
and capital structure analyses to identify and execute banking transactions.
A military strategist develops strategies in the field of warfare with the objective of outmaneuvering their opponent.
Within the financial services
industry, strategists are known as “strats”.
An IT Strategist develops an IT strategy that is aligned with the business strategy
to implement systems to give business processes efficiency and productivity
gains and therefore a possible competitive advantage.
Innovation
Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society...
, perceptive
Perception
Perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of the environment by organizing and interpreting sensory information. All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organs...
and holistic insights of a designer
Designer
A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...
with the pragmatic and systemic
Systemics
In the context of systems science and systems philosophy, the term systemics refers to an initiative to study systems from a holistic point of view...
skills of a planner
Planning
Planning in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired goal on some scale. As such, it is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior...
to guide strategic direction in context of business needs, brand
Brand
The American Marketing Association defines a brand as a "Name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers."...
intent, design
Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
quality and customer values.
An economic strategist is a person who can create a sustainable commercial advantage by applying innovative and quantitative
Quantitative property
A quantitative property is one that exists in a range of magnitudes, and can therefore be measured with a number. Measurements of any particular quantitative property are expressed as a specific quantity, referred to as a unit, multiplied by a number. Examples of physical quantities are distance,...
ideas and systems at a sell side
Sell side
Sell side is a term used in the financial services industry. It is a general term that indicates a firm that sells investment services to asset management firms, typically referred to as the buy side, or corporate entities...
financial institution.
A trading strategist contributes revenue
Revenue
In business, revenue is income that a company receives from its normal business activities, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers. In many countries, such as the United Kingdom, revenue is referred to as turnover....
to the business in which his team is embedded by developing and delivering innovative trade ideas, models and analytic
Analytics
Analytics is the application of computer technology, operational research, and statistics to solve problems in business and industry. Analytics is carried out within an information system: while, in the past, statistics and mathematics could be studied without computers and software, analytics has...
systems to the trading desk.
A 'sport strategist' is a professional that do films, organizing the video-library, apply a scout and analysis of the players for a team. The idea is to promote a innovations of attack and defensives of players using the cooperations with the head-coaches. Its usual find strategist in Judo, Soccer, Baseball, Football and Volleyball.
Working closely with investment managers, a principal investment strategist contributes revenue by providing principal investment analytics
Analytics
Analytics is the application of computer technology, operational research, and statistics to solve problems in business and industry. Analytics is carried out within an information system: while, in the past, statistics and mathematics could be studied without computers and software, analytics has...
and alternative product structuring.
A sales strategist develops innovative trade ideas and assists in the marketing
Marketing
Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...
of those trades to buy side
Buy side
Buy-side is a term used in investment banking to refer to advising institutions concerned with buying, rather than selling, assets or securities...
clients.
A banking strategist partners with investment bankers and capital market experts on corporate finance
Corporate finance
Corporate finance is the area of finance dealing with monetary decisions that business enterprises make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions. The primary goal of corporate finance is to maximize shareholder value while managing the firm's financial risks...
and capital structure analyses to identify and execute banking transactions.
A military strategist develops strategies in the field of warfare with the objective of outmaneuvering their opponent.
Within the financial services
Financial services
Financial services refer to services provided by the finance industry. The finance industry encompasses a broad range of organizations that deal with the management of money. Among these organizations are credit unions, banks, credit card companies, insurance companies, consumer finance companies,...
industry, strategists are known as “strats”.
An IT Strategist develops an IT strategy that is aligned with the business strategy
Strategy
Strategy, a word of military origin, refers to a plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. In military usage strategy is distinct from tactics, which are concerned with the conduct of an engagement, while strategy is concerned with how different engagements are linked...
to implement systems to give business processes efficiency and productivity
Productivity
Productivity is a measure of the efficiency of production. Productivity is a ratio of what is produced to what is required to produce it. Usually this ratio is in the form of an average, expressing the total output divided by the total input...
gains and therefore a possible competitive advantage.