"analytical idea" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express an idea that involves analysis or critical thinking. For example: "The professor presented an intriguing analytical idea about the economic implications of climate change."
But it also reflects the evolution of analytical ideas about the precise nature of the job — an evolution that, to be fair, does involve some rather old-school thinking.
We discuss some analytical ideas supporting this insight in Appendix B.
This work constructs a set of analytical ideas and methods for the re-optimization of the oil project portfolio under the constraints of budget and production capacity.
Olly specializes in applying abstract analytical ideas from mathematical, physical, and statistical science to problems in the real world and commercializing them into significant businesses, resulting in 34 granted patents.
Emerging analytical ideas were set out in written memos, and these were tested among the research team members and refined.
An analytical decision trail was documented in NVivo through a detailed data analysis journal, copies of the coding structure at different time points and time-stamped memos showing evolving analytical ideas about cases, codes and categories.
35 Credibility and trustworthiness 36 of the data (qualitative rigour) was achieved by 'member checking' initial analytical ideas with both our research participants (iteratively) and our patient/carer advisory group.
New York: Cambridge University Press] postulates that intelligence comprises creative skills in generating novel ideas; analytical skills in discerning whether they are good ideas; practical skills in implementing the ideas and persuading others of their worth; and wisdom-based skills in employing one's creative, analytical, and practical skills for a common good.
Analytical thoughts and ideas with respect to the data were discussed in order to reach an understanding of the respondents' point of view [ 26].
This implied constantly going back and forth among the interview transcriptions, the analytical memoranda (theoretical ideas about the codes and their relationships) and a review of the literature [ 27, 29].
