BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Gap Analysis
- a marketing technique used to identify gaps in market or product coverage. In gap analysis, consumer information or requirements are tabulated and matched to product categories in order to identify product or service opportunities or gaps in product planning.
- a method of improving a company's financial performance by reducing the gap between current results and long-term objectives
Additional Resources
- Gap Analysis Tool: E-commerce
- Trying to figure out whether your current e-commercesolution will meet your needs? TechRepublic's GapAnalysis Tool can help--rank which requirements matter most to you, inputrankings for your current solution, and get a gap analysis to help identify thekey issues and determine the best solution. Once you've identified the areaswhere you need...
- Tools & templates 2005-02-07
- Analyzing KM Gaps
- Gap analysis is a standard tool for strategic planners for several decades. Planners know that to effect improvement in an organization, they must first identify the aspects of their operational environment that will enable or deter them from achieving their business strategy. Called key success measures, strategic factors, driving forces...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- What Is The Necessity For ERP Gap Analysis And How Is It Done?
- Gap analysis is an important step in Enterprise Resource Planning ERP implementation. ERP is meant to integrate the data of all the departments in a company under one common platform. This calls for a radical change in the system of the company's functioning. The organization can either drop the idea...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Step 3 - Template: Review The Gap Analysis
- This is a template for review of the gap analysis.
- Tools & templates 2007-05-14
- GAP Analysis Of HIPAA Security Business Practices
- This is a templates for GAP analysis of HIPAA security business practices.
- Tools & templates 2004-04-27
- Revenue Cycle Team Case Study
- The challenge in this engagement was an accounts receivable balance that was growing and operating margins that were declining despite efforts to reduce operational expenditures at this 431-bed urban hospital and comprehensive outpatient health network. Phase 2 Consulting conducted a gap analysis for each major process in the revenue cycle...
- Case studies
- Mathematical Modeling of Membrane Distiller With Liquid Gap
- This work examines three possible schemes of the liquid gap membrane distiller with small productivity consisting of a membrane module assembled from separate liquid gap membrane cells, a heater and a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger can also consist of separate heat transfer cells. For estimation of power inputs for...
- White papers 2004-02-02
- Targeting the Multicultural Marketplace: Filling the Direct Marketing Gap
- This article mainly discusses about targeting the multicultural marketplace in order to fill the direct marketing gap, which is very essential for the organization. This gap, while unfortunate, could spell big opportunity for marketers savvy enough to see the potential. In direct marketing, everything one does is considered to some...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Bridging the Fx Tool Gap
- Competitive pressures are convincing increasing numbers of U.S. businesses to sell abroad in local currencies and take on the operational headaches and financial risks that come with foreign currency collections. This article provides an insight into the tools that can make this process either relatively simple or quite sophisticated, and...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Why Do Indian Children Keep Falling Into The Gap?
- Why Do Indian Children Keep Falling Into The Gap?RE: Why Do Indian Children Keep Falling Into The Gap?Great question posed in piece: Why, if Gap Inc. is so committed to an ethics platform, did it take a media expose to produce corporate 'oh my's?' Be it in the name of...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- The Gap Gives its Word Then Contradicts It
- We didn't receive an answer when we asked the question "Why do Indian children keep falling into The Gap?" We do know, however, that Gap Inc. won't sit by idly and watch children being exploited -- not while American consumers are looking, anyway. Gap's pledged $200,000 to improve working standards...
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- Strategic Planning Tools For Futurists
- Few years’ back, the CEOs, and the top management planned their organization for more than 10 years. The author here talks about time compression and the need to plan for the immediate three or five years. This type of time compression has become pervasive in the recent modern industrialized societies....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- US Pension Funds: Mind the Gap
- Nine out of ten US pension plans are underfunded, many because the capital markets have failed to meet the ambitious expectations of fund managers. Some have been hoping that an upswing will bail them out or relying on accounting changes to smooth over the gap. Rather than waiting for outside...
- White papers
- Globalization and Inflation-Output Tradeoffs
- The report demonstrates how capital account and trade account liberalizations help reduce inefficiencies associated with the fluctuations in the output gap, relative to the inefficiencies associated with the fluctuations in inflation. With capital account liberalization the representative household is able to smooth fluctuations in consumption, and thus becomes relatively insensitive...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Can Gap Mend Its Brand?
- At one time, Gap had the retail clothing market sewn up. Now it struggles against sister brands Banana Republic and Old Navy. The article describes that branding is not about getting prospects to choose over competition; it is about getting prospects to see it as the only solution to their...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- Gap Looks at Shrinking Some Stores to Save Money
- CHICAGO (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reutersa>) - Apparel retailer Gap Inc GPS, which has had declining revenue for three of the last four quarters, wants to reduce the amount of space it uses in some malls so it can cut expenses, its chief executive said on Tuesday....
- News items 2008-06-10
- Pick the Next Dead Retail Spin-Off
- Gap announced Tuesday that it plans to close some GapKids, babyGap, and GapBody stores, consolidating its brands into larger Gap stores in an effort to use real estate more cost-effectively. by Lisa Everitt
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Pay for Quality: A Strategic Perspective
- A new research paper by the Deloitte Center for Health solutions examines the gap between the health care we get and the care we could be getting. The paper offers one viewpoint on how safe and effective care is achievable if key stakeholders approach the process openly and with trust....
- White papers 2007-09-09
- Reducing the Cash Gap by Factoring
- This paper discusses about situations where growing firms often find themselves strapped for money. A gap in cash is created when bills are paid weeks before cash comes in from customers. The cash gap can be shortened by concentrating efforts on fast moving inventory, implementing a just-in-time inventory model, negotiating...
- White papers 2000-11-02
- Detroit's New Quality Gap
- For two decades, US automakers have struggled to close a vast quality gap with their rivals. To be sure, Detroit has improved considerably. This lingering gap prefigures a continuing slide in market share. But now another dimension is also creating some sensation as consumers have changed their ideas about what...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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