The phrase "take targeted action" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an expected course of action or a plan of action that focuses on a specific issue or problem. For example, "Our team has decided to take targeted action to improve customer satisfaction."
"I want councils to take targeted action and focus their efforts on tackling that small number of landlords who make their tenants' lives a misery – and help create a bigger, better private rented sector as a result".
The company is now moving into the market for selling software that helps other organizations measure their total carbon impact and take targeted action, starting with the easiest and cheapest opportunities to reduce emissions.
Team-level information is slow to make it to managers, if it does at all, diminishing the urgency to take targeted action to improve, and stalling engagement-oriented conversations before they have the chance to occur.
They need to know what their patients say about their experiences so they can take targeted actions for continuous improvement that meets the specific needs and expectations of patients.
Yet for many developing and least-developed countries, in particular, contributing to the fight against climate change requires taking targeted actions while also prioritising economic development and poverty reduction.
3. Take targeted, coordinated action with others.
Results from these patient satisfaction surveys, such as 70% of the time patients say nurses were courteous, do not provide insights for providers to take targeted improvement actions.
"Because of our increased intelligence resources, we're developing more information about potential targets associated with I.S.I.L., and, going forward, we will be prepared to take targeted and precise military action if and when we determine that the situation on the ground requires it," he said.
Warning that the militants pose a threat not just to Iraq but also to the United States, Mr. Obama said he was prepared to take "targeted and precise military action," a campaign of airstrikes that a senior administration official said could be extended into neighboring Syria.
The US, Obama said, could take "targeted and precise military action if and when we determine that the situation on the ground requires it".
In the absence of an adequate response from the United Nations security council, we can understand why the United States has taken targeted unilateral action to try and prevent further such attacks by the Syrian regime.
