Strategist

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. [1][2][3][4][5]

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.

References

  1. ^ Lindinger, H., (1991), Ulm Design: The Morality of Objects, Cambridge: The MIT Press.
  2. ^ Gorb, P., (1990) Design Management, London: Phaidon Press
  3. ^ ”Design Management”, Papers from the London Business School, London: Architecture & Technology Press, 1990.
  4. ^ Chung, K.; Freeze, K., “Design Strategy at Samsung Electronics: Becoming a Top-Tier Company″, Design Management Institute Case Study - Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008.
  5. ^ Mataruna, L.; DaCosta, L.P. ,“Video-Scout Methods in Sports", The Brazilian Judo Methods - Case Study - Gama Filho University, 2010.