ANALYSIS

Analysis -- Relating and comparing data from different sources, identifying issues, getting relevant information, and identifying other ways of doing things.

All jobs call for some degree of analysis to evaluate a situation and find problems or opportunities -- or, to anticipate potential problems or opportunities. The people in these jobs must be able to do two things. First, they must gather and analyze the facts that will show the critical issues of a problem or opportunity. Second, they must find the most likely causes and possible solutions.

There are many kinds of analysis: financial, quantitative, operational, organizational, staffing, and scientific. Each requires different ways of finding causes and solutions.

Key Behaviors:

• Finds/Obtains the right information.

• Uses the correct methods to get information.

• Asks the right questions.

• Identifies causes of problems and effects of solutions.

• Looks for more information.

• Looks at underlying problems or opportunities.

• Considers all information; sees trends and relationships.

• Uses the advice and know-how of experts.

• Arranges information quickly and orderly.

• Simplifies complicated information.

• Calculates correctly.

• Understands and uses analytical terms and concepts correctly.

• Knows when to use a computer for analysis.

Key Words -- relate, compare, cause, effect, identify, investigate, question, associate, correlate, determine, symptoms, problems, opportunities, troubleshoot, gather, compile, diagnosis

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