Execution gap: the distance between plan and delivery
The execution gap is the difference between what a company intends to do and what actually gets delivered — the leak between strategy and shipped work.
Strategy is set in week one. By week six the work has quietly decoupled from it, and nobody can point to where. The execution gap is the sum of all that leakage between plan and delivery.
Where does the execution gap open?
Between the plan and the day-to-day. Priorities shift but the strategy doc doesn't. Half the team works off last month's goals. Effort goes into work that no longer maps to the objective — and because nobody's checking the mapping, the drift accumulates unseen.
How do you shrink the execution gap?
By continuously checking what's actually moving against what was supposed to move, and surfacing the divergence while there's still quarter left to correct. Catching it at the review is catching it too late.
Frequently asked
Is the execution gap a strategy problem or an execution problem?
Usually neither alone — it's a visibility problem. The strategy may be sound and the team may be working hard, but without checking that the work maps to the plan, the two drift apart unnoticed.
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