What are the most critical areas of your organization/division that you currently control?
Previously identified the specific situation in a market during the admittance of the interviewee, ask them to talk about some market necessity that hasn’t been fulfilled yet, that the postulant could correctly foresee in order to foresee in order to position their organization better.
What are the opportunities you have identified for your organization’s business? What information did you base yourself on for this? What signs have you considered for identifying what business had to be left?
What happened when the competitors positioned themselves in your market with innovative ideas? What threats could you anticipate? What actions did you face in order to annul the positioning of the new competitor companies or to make the impact on the your organization’s market niche lower?
What is your participation on the Strategic Committee of your organization? How often does this committee get together for meetings?
What strategic response did you evaluate and apply in the last times in front of all the changes that the market has imposed to your organization? How did you apply them? What changes were necessary to make, design or the way of working of your organization?
What strategies did you change for your division/company to get better adapted to the new market requirements?
What new objectives have you defined for your division/company that increased its importance in the consecution of the organizational strategy? (for a number one of the area)
How much time do you dedicate to the resolution of operative topics on your division/company? In this context, what is the space you assign for the planning? (for a number one of the area)
What elements do you give the priority to when you define your organization’s planning? What problems of your division/company have you foreseen before they turned into very serious situations?
What has been your participation on the strategic turns your company has had? Tell me about a relevant change in your organization and your participation in it.
What are the biggest challenges the organization or area you work at has to face.