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How wide is your strategy execution gap?

Most strategies are sound on paper and come apart in execution. This assessment estimates how much of your strategy is actually backed by owned, resourced work across five areas, then shows where the gap is widest. It takes about a minute and needs no signup.

In short

The strategy execution gap is the distance between what leadership planned and what the organization is actually doing. You can gauge it across five areas: traceability, ownership, bandwidth, visibility and focus. The weakest area is where a goal quietly stalls before it shows up in a review.

Traceability
Every goal is explicitly linked to the projects or tasks meant to move it.
You can trace any active project back up to the goal it serves.
Ownership
Each goal has one named, accountable owner, not a team or a committee.
Contributors to each goal are explicit and separate from the owner.
Bandwidth
Capacity is deliberately allocated to strategic priorities, not assumed.
You keep a do-not list of initiatives you have chosen not to pursue.
Visibility
You learn a KPI is off-pace before the review, not during it.
Status reflects actual work activity rather than a manually typed update.
Focus
The list of top priorities is short enough to concentrate effort.
Work that no longer serves a priority gets stopped, not carried along.

How it works

  1. Answer ten quick questions across five areas: traceability, ownership, bandwidth, visibility and focus.
  2. Answer each honestly as Yes, Partly, or No. The tool scores every area and combines them into one alignment score out of 100.
  3. Read your weakest area first. That is where a goal is most likely to stall before it surfaces in a review.

Frequently asked questions

What is the strategy execution gap?

The strategy execution gap is the distance between what leadership planned and what the organization is actually doing. It opens up when goals are set but the effort, ownership and capacity behind them drift out of alignment, so the plan is sound while the work quietly moves elsewhere.

How do you measure a strategy execution gap?

Assess five areas: whether goals link to the work meant to move them, whether each goal has one accountable owner, whether capacity is deliberately allocated, whether off-pace work is visible before the review, and whether effort stays concentrated on a short list of priorities. The weakest area is where execution risk builds first.

Is this the same as the alignment score in Vindaris?

No. This tool gives a directional estimate from your own answers at one moment. Inside Vindaris the equivalent picture is built continuously from your actual work and updated as effort moves, rather than from a one-time self-assessment.

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