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Trends, Networks, and Critical

Thinking in the 21st Century
Quarter 3 – Module 4:
Understanding Strategic Analysis
and Intuitive Thinking
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Quarter 3 – Module 4: Understanding Strategic Analysis and Intuitive Thinking
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Trends, Networks, and

Critical Thinking in the
21st Century
Quarter 3 – Module 4:
Understanding Strategic Analysis
and Intuitive Thinking

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Introductory Message
This Self-Learning Module (SLM) is prepared so that you, our dear learners,
can continue your studies and learn while at home. Activities, questions, directions,
exercises, and discussions are carefully stated for you to understand each lesson.

Each SLM is composed of different parts. Each part shall guide you step-by-
step as you discover and understand the lesson prepared for you.

Pre-tests are provided to measure your prior knowledge on lessons in each

SLM. This will tell you if you need to proceed on completing this module or if you
need to ask your facilitator or your teacher’s assistance for better understanding of
the lesson. At the end of each module, you need to answer the post-test to self-check
your learning. Answer keys are provided for each activity and test. We trust that you
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What I Need to Know

How does one become prudent in a culture with overwhelming information

and demands?
This module will present the intuitive and strategic thinking process. It will
show how one can come up with a quick decision or conclusion without being partial
but promoting the common good. It will introduce the rigors of intuitive and strategic
analysis and how both could work in hand.

After going through this module, you should be able to:

1. explain strategic analysis and intuitive thinking (HUMSS_MCT12-Ic-e-

2);
a. define strategic analysis and intuitive thinking
(HUMSS_MCT12-Ic-e-1);
b. differentiate key components in strategic analysis and intuitive
thinking (HUMSS_MCT12-Ic-e-5);
2. Apply strategic analysis (HUMSS_MCT12-Ic-e-3); and
3. Apply intuitive thinking in solving a problem in the community using
a map of social networks (HUMSS_MCT12-Ic-e-4) (HUMSS_MCT12-Ic-
e-6).
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What I Know

A. Directions: Read and analyze the statements and identify if these statements
pertain to a strategic analysis and intuitive thinking. Write SA if the statement
pertains to the descriptions of strategic analysis and IT if the statement pertains to
intuitive thinking. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

______1. It is referred to as gut feeling, sixth sense, inner sense, instinct, inner
voice, spiritual guide, etc.
______2. It involves additional sensors to perceive and get aware of the
information from outside.
______3. It is spontaneous, quick, and finished at one time.
______4. This involves looking at the context of the problem.
______5. It refers to a system or method that requires deliberate, abstract, and
effortful thinking that breaks down a complex problem into parts.
______6. The amount of time and resources are the primary factors.
______7. It is best used when a person is immersed in his or her field of expertise.
______8. It is effectively used in dealing with complex problems.
______9. This is the ability to understand something instinctively.
______10. It is relevant in addressing personal issues as a student.

B. Directions: The following are statements about the concepts you will going to learn
from this module. Write TRUE if the sentence is correct, write FALSE otherwise.
Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

______11. Holistic decision is attained when strategic analysis and intuitive

thinking are observed.
______12. Community refers to a particular geographic location with people living
under the same set of laws and recognizing common leaders.
______13. Every individual is a decision maker.
______14. Political networks are composed of relations with government officials,
student government, and community leaders, among others.
______15. Intuitive thinking follows specific standards, formula, and criteria.
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Lesson Understanding Strategic

4 Analysis and Intuitive
Thinking
We all think. We have no choice but to think. In fact, the great Aristotle
described us, human persons as the “thinking being”. However, could we challenge
ourselves to think at a higher level? Is thinking a skill that can be improved? How
often do we actually think about the way we think?

What’s In

Directions: Complete the puzzle below. Write your answers on a separate sheet of
paper.
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What’s New

Thinking is an important part of our human experience, and one that has
captivated people for centuries. Thinking skills are the mental activities you use to
process information, make connections, make decisions, and create new ideas. You
use your thinking skills when you try to make sense of experiences, solve problems,
make decisions, ask questions, make plans, or organize information. ("Thinking
Skills - Analytical, Critical and Creative Thinking", 2021)

Directions: Put a check (√ ) on each blank if the following is true to you. Write your
answers on a separate sheet of paper.

______1. I think several times before I do something.

______2. I often assume and it usually works.
______3. When people relay information to me, I easily believe it.
______4. I tend to believe what I read.
______5. I take responsibility to everything I hear and say.
______6. I verify and look for basis before concluding.
______7. I answer questions which I do not know.
______8. I randomly click “Like” in Facebook without any reason.
______9. I ask questions why I need to do my assigned tasks.
______10. I just yield to whatever I am asked to do.
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What is It

As already described in the preliminary above, Aristotle described the human

person as an “rational animal” which only mean that we humans are the only beings
capable of reasoning or thinking. This concept was reiterated by the modern thinker,
Rene Descartes, in his famous “cogito ergo sum” or “I think therefore I exist” which he
meant that we human beings, whether we liked it or not, whether we choose it or
not, whether we doubt it or not, we think. The question “why we think?” may be
functionally answered by sciences like psychology, biology and physics but the
question “how we think?” brings us to the process and development of our capacity
to think.

Strategic Analysis and Intuitive Thinking Defined

Strategic analysis refers to a system or method that requires deliberate,

abstract, and effortful thinking that breaks down a complex problem into parts.
Deliberate thinking employs a detailed examination of a problem to come up with a
solution. This involves looking at the context of the problem. The amount of time and
resources are the primary factors in strategic analysis. The most common strategic
analysis model used in decision-making follows five steps as illustrated in the
diagram below. (Arzadon, 2018)

1. Identify the problem

2. Analyze the problem

5. Reflect on the outcomes 3. Generate a solution

4. Implement
the solution
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STEPS EXPLANATION
1. Identify Involves defining the problem and the factors or
conditions involved in the situation
2. Analyze Examining the variables that will change state situations,
including the potential challenges and its causes
3. Generate Setting practical, reasonable, and creative criteria and
strategies to solve the problem
4. Implement Execution of the plan
5. Assess and reflect on Draw lessons that will guide future decisions
the outcome

The process above requires you to follow a pattern to creatively address a

situation. This involves strategic thinking.

Another focus of this lesson is for you to engage in decision-making activities

that will allow you to apply decision making methods. Strategic analysis is relevant
in addressing your personal issues as a student. It means that you can also analyze
your own strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in order to make creative
strategies or solutions in facing life challenges. In practice, a personal SWOT
(Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threat/s) will help you understand your
personal issues and goals as well as construct effective ways in dealing with both.
This is illustrated through the personal SWOT analysis shown on the next page,
which presents that of a student who wishes to finish high school with good grades.

Strengths Weaknesses
1. What values, skills, and abilities 1. What limits or hinders you in
do you possess? getting good grades?
2. How can you use these to get good 2. How can your limitations deter
grades? from achieving your goal?
3. What learning strategies do you
need to develop in order to achieve
your goal?
Personal SWOT
Analysis Diagram

Opportunities Threat/s
1. What social and cultural factors
can help you attain and sustain your
goal? What obstacles might limit and stop
you from pursuing your goal?
2. Who can help you in pursuing
your goal?

Let us now proceed to the discussion of intuitive thinking!

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Intuitive thinking is “quick and ready insight” (Webster’s New Collegiate
Dictionary). It is another approach to decision-making. This is the ability to
understand something instinctively without the need for conscious reasoning.
Sometimes, it is referred to as gut feeling, sixth sense, inner sense, instinct, inner
voice, spiritual guide, etc. Intuitive thinking is affected by how one feels and define a
thing or event. Particular norms and value systems within a community are
considered when making decisions. For example, among some indigenous people,
their farmers would not touch certain places in the field like an anthill. When asked
why they do avoid such places, they cannot cite any pragmatic reason. It was just
intuition. Maybe they will say that nuno sa punso (a mythical dwarf-like creature),
lives in those places. Soil scientist said that such is a sound practice because anthills
are necessary to maintain the physical, chemical, and biological health of the soil.
Intuitive decision-making is far more than using common sense because it
involves additional sensors to perceive and get aware of the information from outside.
In dealing with everyday life issues and situations, we are called to make
immediate decisions based on our ‘gut’ feelings and prior knowledge and experiences.
This type of decision-making is evident in various situations: a doctor assessing an
emergency case; a teacher determining the reason for a child’s inattentiveness in
class; a buyer examining which vegetable to buy; and a firefighter trying to rescue a
fire victim. In these cases, one would not hesitate or delay making decisions because
these situations need immediate action.
The question is now whether rational reasoning or intuitive decision-making
is generally better. The question is rather how both approaches can be best combined
for best results and to avoid mistakes and prejudices.
The Venn Diagram below shows some similarities and differences between
strategic analysis and intuitive thinking.

STRATEGIC
INTUITIVE
ANALYSIS
THINKING
• starts from an idea
or concept and • focuses on the
moves on to what idea or concept
can be associated
logical and its attributes
with it
• brain-centered mind • heart centered
• hard facts, data, needed • hunch, instinct,
instructions gut feeling
• needs time to finish • spontaneous,
in one or more quick, finished at
sittings or sessions one time
• well-planned • unplanned
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Using Intuitive Thinking in Social Networks

Each person is engaged in a variety of networks associated with his or her

multiple roles and interests in the community. According to Arzadon et.al. (2017),
these networks can be, among others, political, economic, and sociocultural.
Your political networks are composed of relations with government officials,
student government, and community leaders, among others.
The economic networks you belong to cover the manufacturers, agents, and
sellers of the goods you consume such as those in stores, groceries, markets, and
malls as well as money lenders.
Your sociocultural or social networks are those belonging to your dance
troupe, choir, reading club, band, arts club, or theater company. Kinship ties,
neighborhood associations, friendship clubs, and veterans’ associations also belong
to the social network wherein people constantly engage in close communication and
interaction through visits, phone calls, text messages, and activities of common
interest.
Social networks appear as clusters and support groups of people who share
similar interests, backgrounds, and real-life connections. They are avenues for
meeting new friends, reuniting with old and lost friends, exchanging gifts and favors,
and developing cooperation. The community is home to this web of interrelations and
interconnections of people and institutions. Community refers to a particular
geographic location with people living under the same set of laws and recognizing
common leaders. Studies of community linkages deal usually with who was seen
interacting with whom.
Another concept in the study of social ties is the center of influence. This is
the person to whom people gravitate around. This person who can give favors, can
command and make things happen. Examples of center of influence are the mayor,
judge, barangay captain, school principal, and university president, among others.
His or her influence transcends the boundaries of social networks and thus reaches
other kinds of networks. A center of influence has many people and institutions
attached to him or her, thereby creating a substantial influence in the community.
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What’s More

A. Directions: Examine the picture below. Write reasons with your family members
and answer the questions provided. Use a separate sheet of paper for your answers.

Rommel, a five-year-old boy, puts a label “salt” into a jar of sugar. Actually,
he has been observing it almost everyday because many ants are attacking the jar.

1. Why do you think Rommel has labeled the jar of sugar “salt”?
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2. Did he use intuitive or strategic way of thinking? Why?

__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

3. What is lacking in his problem-solving skill?

__________________________________________________________________________________
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B. Think of specific events in your life where you had to exercise intuitive thinking and
strategic analysis in your decisions. Reflect on the insights you have gained from
both experiences. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

Strategic Analysis: _______________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Event: ___________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Insight: __________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

Intuitive Thinking: _______________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Event: ___________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Insight: __________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
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What I Have Learned

Directions: Complete the following sentences by reflecting on what you have learned.
You may further explain your answers. Write your answers on a separate sheet of
paper.

1. Strategic thinking refers to ________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

2. Intuitive thinking refers to ____________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________

3. Political networks are ________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________

4. Economic networks are ______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________

5. Social networks are __________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________

You can now proceed to the

next part of this module!
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What I Can Do

Directions: Using your understanding about strategic analysis and intuitive thinking,
decide whether each situation requires intuitive thinking or strategic analysis.
Provide a short explanation of your answer. Write your answers on a separate sheet
of paper.

1. A doctor attending to the patients in the emergency room

______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
2. A scientist finding a cure or an infectious disease
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
3. A group of researchers solving climate change
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
4. A firefighter rescuing victims from a burning building
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
5. A lawyer solving a case
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
6. A street vendor trying to sell and generate good profit within a day
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
7. A teacher wanting to solve poor motivation among her students
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
8. A lady trying to figure out whether to bring or not an umbrella in anticipation of
rain
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
9. A couple wanting to buy a house in a subdivision
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
10. A mother attending to the whining of her child
______________________________________________________________________________
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Assessment

A. Directions: Read and analyze the statements and identify if these statements
pertain to a strategic analysis and intuitive thinking. Write SA if the statement
pertains to the descriptions of strategic analysis and IT if the statement pertains
to intuitive thinking. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

______1. It refers to a system or method that requires deliberate, abstract, and

effortful thinking that breaks down a complex problem into parts.
______2. This involves looking at the context of the problem.
______3. It involves additional sensors to perceive and get aware of the
information from outside.
______4. It is referred to as gut feeling, sixth sense, inner sense, instinct, inner
voice, spiritual guide, etc.
______5. It is spontaneous, quick, and finished at one time.

B. Directions: The following are statements about the concepts you have learned in
this module. Write TRUE if the sentence is correct, write FALSE otherwise. Write
your answers on a separate sheet of paper.
______6. Intuitive thinking follows specific standards, formula, and criteria.
______7. Holistic decision is attained when strategic analysis and intuitive
thinking are observed.
______8. Every individual is a decision maker.
______9. Community refers to a particular geographic location with people
living under the same set of laws and recognizing common leaders.
______10. Economic networks are composed of relations with government
officials, student government, and community leaders, among others.

C. Directions: Identify five persons who work under the given network.

Political Network Economic Network Sociocultural Network

a. a. a.
b. b. b.
c. c. c.
d. d. d.
e. e. e.
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Additional Activities

Directions: Answer the following questions:

1. When and how do I apply strategic thinking?

__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

2. When and how do I apply intuitive thinking?

__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

3. When and how do I employ the two?

__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

You did a great job finishing

this module! I hope you enjoyed
learning the concepts of
strategic analysis and intuitive
thinking! Be ready for the next
one!
What I Know: What’s In: What’s New: What’s More:
1. IT
2. IT Students’ answers Students’ answers
3. IT 1.DOCUMENTATION may vary. may vary.
2.MEMORY
4. SA
3. ANALYSIS
5. SA 4. PATTERN
6. SA 5. PRESENTATION
7. IT 6. MOOD BOARD
8. SA 7. STORY BOARD
9. IT 8. MEGATREND
10. SA 9. GIGATREND
B. True or false 10. MACROTREND
11.FALSE
11. TRUE
12. TRUE
12. TRUE 13. TRUE
13. TRUE 14. FALSE
14. TRUE 15. TRUE
15. TRUE
What I Have What I Can Do: Assessment: Additional
Learned: Activities:
Students’ answers A.
Students’ answers may vary. 1. SA Students’ answers
may vary. 2. SA may vary.
3. IT
4. IT
5. IT
B.
6. FALSE
7. TRUE
8. TRUE
9. TRUE
10. FALSE
C.
Students’ answers
may vary.
Answer Key
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RUBRICS FOR ESSAY

Adapted from: Tuazon, Jenny
CONTENT
The presence of ideas
developed through facts,
examples, anecdotes, reasons
and/or explanations
5 Substantial, specific, and/or
illustrative content
demonstrating strong
development and sophisticated
ideas
4 Sufficiently developed content
with adequate elaboration or
explanation
3 Limited content with
inadequate elaboration or
explanation
2 Superficial and/or minimal
content
STYLE/ CONVENTIONS
The choice, use and arrangement of
words and sentence structures that
create tone and voice
Precise, illustrative use of a variety of
words and sentence structures to
create consistent writer’s voice and
tone appropriate to audience
Generic use of a variety of words and
sentence structures that may or may
not create writer’s voice and tone
appropriate to audience
Limited word choice and control of
sentence structures that inhibit voice
and tone
Minimal variety in word choice and
minimal control of sentence structures

2-Point Rubric- Short Response

2 Points The response has sufficient number of relevant facts, definitions,
concrete details, and/or other information according to the
requirements of the prompt.
1 Point The response has some relevant facts, definitions, concrete
details, and/or other information according to the requirements of
the prompt.
0 Point The response is totally inaccurate.
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Arzadon, M., Romerosa, P. and Zarate, M., 2018. Trends, Networks, and Critical
Thinking. 1st ed. Quezon City, Manila: Vibal Group, Inc., p.7.

Benson, Faith. 2019. "ACE Short Response Rubric".

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/ACE-short-response-
rubric-2280621.

DepEd (2020). K to 12 Most Essential Learning Competencies.

Mangiduyos, Gladys P. 2017. Trends, Networks, And Critical Thinking in the 21st
Century. 1st ed. Sampaloc, Manila: Rex Publishing.

"Thinking Skills - Analytical, Critical and Creative Thinking". 2021.

Thepeakperformancecenter.com.
https://thepeakperformancecenter.com/educational-learning/thinking/.

Tuazon, Jenny. 2013. "Rubrics for Essay".

http://https;//www.slideshare.net/jennytuazon01630/rubrics-in-essay.

Urgel, Elizabeth. 2017. Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century
Culture. 1st ed. Makati City, Philippines: DIWA Learning Systems Inc.,
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