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How do you know what to trim, fix, expand, or change to get your business to the next level? You do a gap analysis, that's how.

You might have lots of guesses about what's going on, and your team might have different opinions on how to meet your objectives. Rather than groping around in the dark, a gap analysis leads you through a detailed examination of where your organization is currently and where you want to be so you can act on facts, not assumptions, to reach your potential.

If you're wondering how to do a gap analysis, follow these four simple steps. Regardless of your industry, you'll be able to apply these tips across any discipline and meet your business goals.

1. Analyze your current state

First, you'll need to choose which area of your business you want to focus on and start with your current state. You need to discover where your organization currently is before you can make a plan for reaching your goals.

For example, your company wants to become the most loved in your industry, but your customer support team reports that many calls and customer interactions end in frustration on the customers' part.

Is your product the problem or does your support team need more training on handling difficult calls? You won't know until you dig in, which will mean talking to the people involved, gathering data, and scrutinizing your KPIs. To make sense of this information and visualize your current state, use a gap analysis tool--a customer journey map, empathy map, service blueprint, or process flow.

If you wanted to find out what causes customer frustration, you might gather quantitative information, like your company's NPS score or the number of negative calls handled each week. You might also look at qualitative information, like customer comments or feedback from your support reps on the current call process.

Even if you're looking to analyze a more strategic area of your business, the process remains the same. A sales team with the same company vision--becoming the best-loved company in the industry--might examine the sales reps' product pitch as well as sales growth, targets, and conversion rates.

What's most important at this stage is understanding the root of the problem, which is much easier to see once you've laid out all the contributing factors. In fact, your gap analysis process should evaluate everything you currently do so you get the "big picture."

2. Identify the ideal future state

Once you have the big picture figured out and understand how your team or organization currently functions, you need to become idealistic. Where would you like to be? What's not happening that should be? Don't worry yet about how you'll get there. That's the next step. Right now, the sky's the limit, and you should dream big.

Maybe you have an exceptional marketing team that outsources all its content, but after performing a content audit, you realize that your brand is no longer cohesive because it's handled by a disparate group of freelancers. Your dream could be to regain control of the content creation process in order to reclaim your brand identity.

Another example might be of a warehouse needing to meet certain safety regulations, but the production and human resource managers decide that they want to do more than meet them. Their ideal would be to exceed what's mandated so they can attract and retain more talented and dedicated workers.

In both scenarios, current performance clearly falls short or needs to be changed. But instead of charging blindly ahead or slapping a Band-Aid on the situation, picturing the ideal helps you reach a higher potential. A good gap analysis tool here would be a brainstorming board or a mind map to really capitalize on your team's creativity.

But how do you realistically get to the ideal? That's where the hard work comes in.

3. Find the gap and evaluate solutions

Completing the first two steps in isolation won't get you great results--the status quo can seem inescapable, and goals can feel lofty and unattainable. Putting them together, however, exposes what's missing between your performance and your potential. You also need to decide which solutions will most effectively bridge the gap.

Returning to our previous example involving a marketing team (see step 2), a gap analysis would bring up the following question: How do we go from a muddled brand voice to one that's unified and under our control?

Several solutions for bridging this gap present themselves, though not all are created equal:

You could bring content creation back in house by hiring more full-time writers, which would be more expensive than using freelancers.

You could reevaluate of all your freelancers to determine which ones are worth keeping and which are falling short of your standards. This option would require some time and might result in not having enough freelancers to handle your needs.

You could tighten your brand creation guidelines and retrain your freelancers. This option would also require time and doesn't necessarily guarantee an improvement in the content created by your freelancers.

If guaranteed control matters most, then the first solution is best. On the other hand, if cost tops the list, then the first solution will be out, and your team might choose the second or third solution. A helpful gap analysis tool would be a decision tree as it calculates costs and benefits based on conditional probability.

In the end, how you bridge the gap will depend on your organizational and team priorities. Work together to find what works best.

4. Create and implement a plan to bridge the gap

After you've charted out the possible ways to bridge the gap and decided which would be best, you likely still need to convince others in your organization of that as well. The changes that you'll implement may also affect other teams and department, so it's important to come up with a plan.

Establish a clear strategy and actionable objectives to help you actualize your transition and get everyone on board.

For example, when presenting to management or executives, have a timeline or schedule for rolling out the planned changes. You could also create a more comprehensive action plan that assigns specific tasks to teams or individuals.

Keep reading about organizational change management, or use the tools described below to help you during this gap analysis process.

Gap analysis tools

Many tools exist to help you bridge the gap. Whichever tool you choose, visualize and document each step of your gap analysis to keep your organization moving forward.

SWOT analysis

SWOT analysis is perhaps one of the oldest textbook-marketing assets. SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. You can perform a SWOT analysis both quantitatively and qualitatively. This process will help you determine internal and external threats to your organization and see where and how you stand out against the competition.

Fishbone diagram

Named for their distinctive shape, fishbone diagrams (also known as Ishikawa, cause-and-effect, or herringbone diagrams) explore the possible causes of a root problem. This type of diagram would be especially valuable when examining your current situation.

The most commonly used categories for investigation are:

You can choose any categories that make sense for the central problem or effect you're examining, as shown in the example below.

McKinsey 7S framework

The McKinsey 7S framework was developed by its eponymous consulting firm. It ultimately helps determine whether a company is meeting expectations, and it actualizes the shared values of an organization. It works through the 7 S's of an organization to see what values cross over. Additionally, this framework bridges the gap between the company's present and desired states.

Nadler-Tushman Model

Perhaps the most dynamic of the models, the Nadler-Tushman model examines how each business process affects another and identifies which gaps affect efficiency. It creates a holistic view of your organization's operational processes from beginning (input) to end (output).

The model finds gaps by dividing your organization's processes into three groups:

Input: Entire company culture and workforce, all resources used to create product/service, and operational environment

Transformation: The systems, teams, and processes that take the input value(s) and turn them into the output product

Output: The final product or service

PEST analysis

Similar to SWOT, PEST analysis helps you identify threats and opportunities by examining the four primary external factors of your business environment:

This approach eliminates gaps by pinpointing current issues, highlighting opportunities for change, and minimizing risks in the market.

If you want to do a more in-depth analysis of your market environment, try a PESTLE analysis instead, as it adds legal and environmental factors to the PEST analysis.

The gap analysis process is essential for any business to streamline their operations for efficiency and cost-effectiveness. If you're considering process improvement, learn how to start documenting your as-is process.

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The Certified Professional in Patient Safety TM credential (CPPS) is earned by professionals who have demonstrated a high level of proficiency in the core standards of patient safety.​​​​​​​​​ This credential is awarded through a thorough examination covering five patient safety domains:​

Culture​

Leadership

Patient Safety Risks and Solutions

Measuring and Improving Performance

Systems Thinking and Design / Human Factors​

​More than 3,000 professionals have earned the CPPS credential, representing all 50 US states and 20 countries.​​​​​​
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