Enable Strategy Lab
Gap Analysis Builder
Where you are, where you need to be, and the honest reason for the difference.
Pick a lens - Performance, Profit, Market & Offer, or Team & Skills - describe your current state and your target, and get the gap classified (is it a performance problem, a measurement problem, a disagreement about the goal, or the wrong strategy?), likely root causes, and a closing plan with one owner, one action, and one check-in date.
Included in All Access, or unlock it on its own.
Who it’s for
- Something's broken and you can't tell what?
Start here first: free Academy course
The Honest Gap Analysis
Most gap analyses fail before they start, because "where we want to be" gets written down honestly and "where we actually are" doesn't. The five-part method in this course closes that distance for real, starting with an honest read on your actual position. Skip the honesty and the gap analysis becomes wishful thinking with a spreadsheet attached.
- 1.Five Parts, Not a Feeling"We're behind where we should be" is not a gap analysis. Here's what actually is.
- 2.Four Kinds of GapNot every gap is a performance problem - and treating them all like one is why so many "fixes" don't work.
- 3.One Honest "Why", Not Five Shallow OnesRoot cause analysis doesn't need to be a workshop. It needs to go one level deeper than the obvious answer.
- 4.Pick a Gap You Actually HaveWrite down one current state and one future state from your own business, right now.
- 5.Quick CheckA few questions to lock in what you just covered.
- 6.Build Your AnalysisTurn your current state and future state into a classified gap, root causes, and a real closing plan.
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What does the Gap Analysis Builder do?
Pick a lens - Performance, Profit, Market & Offer, or Team & Skills - describe your current state and your target, and get the gap classified (is it a performance problem, a measurement problem, a disagreement about the goal, or the wrong strategy?), likely root causes, and a closing plan with one owner, one action, and one check-in date.
How much does the Gap Analysis Builder cost?
It's included in All Access along with every other Lab and the full Academy, or you can unlock it on its own. The membership page has the current options.
Is it built for Australian businesses?
Yes. Enable Strategy Lab is built in Queensland for Australian small business owners, using Australian dollars, GST and Australian terms throughout.
Do I need to be good with numbers or strategy?
No. Each Lab walks you through one step at a time in plain English, with examples, and saves your work as you go so you can come back to it.
Is there anything I should read first?
Yes: the free Academy course "The Honest Gap Analysis" explains the thinking behind this Lab in 6 short lessons.