The most important aspect is more to think like an engineer (software/system/data whatever). This lets you at least recognize common information problems: Why

The most important aspect is more to think like an engineer (software/system/data whatever). This lets you at least recognize common information problems: Why does this document go to each person serially when it could go to them in parallel). Why do we store all our important data in a word doc on a windows share where it's difficult to collaborate on it. Why are the other business group repeating 50% of what my business group already does. Why are we keeping so many versions/copies of this data - any changes to one copy is exponentially expensive as we have to update the other copies. Why is it so difficult to keep track of projects/issues/tasks/action items/etc? Why am I manually running this report instead of getting it automatically emailed to my team ever week. Why is it difficult to communicate and collaborate to colleagues in different parts of the company. etc. So much modern "work" are really just repetitive information problems that are so common that they're easily solvable by existing tools. Likely free ones. You just have to be able to recognize them and apply the correct solution.