Analytical Competency Definitions (Gaudet et al. 2003)
| Analytical Competency | Definition |
Core
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| Creative Thinking | recognizing, exploring, and using a broad range of ideas and practices; thinking logically and creatively without undue ifluence from personal biases | X |
| Knowledge Management | the efforts to systematically find, organize, and make available a company's intellectual capital and to foster a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing so that organizational activities build on existing knowledge. | |
| Model Building Skills | conceptualizing and developing theoretical and practical frameworks that describe complex ideas in understandable, usable ways | |
| Problem-Solving Skills | the ability to consider alternative courses of action and select and implement appropriate solutions | X |
| Research Skills | selecting, developing, and using methodologies such as statistical and data collection techniques for formal inquiry | |
| Systems Thinking | identifying inputs, throughputs, and outputs of a subsystem, system, or suprasystem and apply that information to improve the application of geospatial technologies; realizing the implications of geospatial technology or many parts of an organization, process, or individual; taking steps to address the impact of applying these technologies. |