Gap Analyses To Develop A Better Process
The gap analysis also can be used to analyse gaps in processes and the gap between the existing outcome and the desired outcome. This step process can be summarised as below:
- Identify the existing process
- Identify the existing outcome
- Identify the desired outcome
- Identify the process to achieve the desired outcome
- Identify Gap, Document the gap
- Develop the means to fill the gap
- Develop and prioritize Requirements to bridge the gap
Gap analysis can also be used to compare existing processes to processes performed elsewhere, such as those obtained by benchmarking. In this usage, you compare each process side-by-side and step-by-step and note the differences. Then analyze each difference carefully to determine if there is any benefit obtained by incorporating the other process or portions of the other process. This analysis must be done carefully and objectively to realize any potential gains. Sometimes the gap analysis will reveal that the two processes can be combined to create a new one that is superior to either original.
Read more about this topic: Gap Analysis
Famous quotes containing the words gap, analyses, develop and/or process:
“For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn less because they do the housework.”
—Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century)
“The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The toddler’s wish to please ... is a powerful aid in helping the child to develop a social awareness and, eventually, a moral conscience. The child’s love for the parent is so strong that it causes him to change his behavior: to refrain from hitting and biting, to share toys with a peer, to become toilet trained. This wish for approval is the parent’s most reliable ally in the process of socializing the child.”
—Alicia F. Lieberman (20th century)
“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)