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.

Inspectors should be great at:

• Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

• Installing, adjusting, maintaining, repairing, or providing technical assistance for biomedical equipment.
• Keeping documentation of service histories on all biomedical equipment.
• Conducting training or in services to educate clinicians and other personnel on proper using of equipment.
• Writing documents describing protocols, policies, standards for using, maintenance, and repairing of medical equipment.
• Managing teams of engineers by creating schedules, tracking inventory, creating and using budgets, and overseeing contract obligations and deadlines.
• Evaluating the safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of biomedical equipment.
• Advising hospital administrators on the planning, acquisition, and using of medical equipment.
• Advising and assisting in the application of instrumentation in clinical environments.
• Researching new materials to be used for products, such as implanted artificial organs.
• Developing models or computer simulations of human biobehavioral systems for obtaining data for measuring or controlling life processes.