Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

Most strategists should excel at:

• Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

• Programming farm equipment, such as variable rate planting equipment or pesticide sprayers, based on inputs from crop scouting and analysis of field conditions variability.
• Comparing crop yield maps with maps of soil testing data, chemical application patterns, or other information for developing site specific crop management plans.
• Installing, calibrating, or maintaining sensors, mechanical controls, GPS based vehicle guidance systems, or computer settings.
• Collecting information about soil or field attributes, yield data, or field boundaries, using field data recorders and basic geographic information systems (GIS).
• Identifying spatial coordinates, using remote sensing and Global Positioning System (GPS) data.
• Identifying areas in need of pesticide treatment by analyzing geospatial data for determining insect movement and damage patterns.
• Creating, layer, and analyzing maps showing precision agricultural data, such as crop yields, soil characteristics, inputs applications, terrain, drainage patterns, or field management history.