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HOW TO DO GAP ANALYSIS FOR BUSINESS AND
MANAGEMENT RESEARCH FROM LITERATURE REVIEW
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Today's Discussion
In-Brief Introduction Importance of Gap Analysis
Analyze your Current State Identify Your Target
and Goals Determine the Current State of Things
Find the Gap and Evaluate Solutions Implement a
Plan to Bridge the Gap Conclusion
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In-Brief
The main reason for conducting gap analysis is to
identify the problem statement and determine a
research question that helps create an original
project. Gap analysis is designed to look at
recent happenings rather than waiting till the
end of the project or activity to see what did
not work. It helps to move forward.
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Introduction
Research gap is a research problem that has not
been appropriately answered or not considered in
the field of study. Writing a literature review
for research is a critical stage that is
difficult to progress with. The main objective
of writing a literature review is to identify
the research gap, later that gap itself will
become an essential aspect of your research. It
is also considered the missing piece of research,
and the area has not been evaluated or
un-explored for a long time. Contd...
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the existing trends and areas of interests in
your research field Thomson Reuters develop one
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Some of the research institutions have access to
these websites it helps identify the most cited
paper in your research field, the new field of
study, or areas emerging in that field. It also
helps recognize the influential individuals,
institutions, articles, publications, and
countries related to that field. "Google trends"
is another platform that helps determine the
popularity or interest towards a topic is
increasing or decreasing. These tools are used
to compare various issues and help identify the
difference between them in popularity and
scope. Contd...
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It also facilitates "regional interest" index,
which shows the top's popularity and how country
it is popularly being used. Another piece of
data provided by Google Trends is "related
searches" which offers questions similar to your
research and the name of the authors who are
active in the topic you have searched. Read the
blog w riting a literature review for a
dissertation
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Importance of Gap Analysis
The main reason for conducting gap analysis is to
identify the problem statement and determine a
research question that helps create an original
project.
There are two general guidelines to conduct a gap
analysis Strategic which covers the planning
side of a business Operational which guides
the execution of the project or the way the
organization need to function It focuses on busin
ess like human resources, financial objectives,
product development, sales, and IT. Contd...
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It is also called "gap assessment". Here some of
the reasons why gap analysis is essential. It
shows your strengths and weaknesses in real-time
It enables you to move resources in a smarter
way It helps management make better
decisions It provides an objective perspective
to develop processes for the future
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Analyze your Current State
Before w riting a literature review for a
research paper, you need to understand the
previous research work, which has been carried
out in a particular research field.
Gap analysis is designed to look at recent
happenings rather than waiting till the end of
the project or activity to see what did not
work. It helps to move forward. It is not just
summarizing previous works or just talking about
stocks of what was, It is about looking ahead to
develop the future.
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Identify Your Target and Goals
After deciding on the area, you need to carry out
the research, and the next major step is to set
up goals or targets. The goals must be
realistic, achievable within a certain
period. The goals must be aligned in a way to
improve the business process.
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Determine the Current State of Things
Before moving forward, you need to discover the
current state of the field.
In this step, you need to figure out your
research area's current state, about the recent
technologies and methodologies being used.
It can be done with reports or process
documentation, journal article, conference
papers, doing interviews, brainstorming,
etc. It can gather data as much as possible to
clarify how they are performing at present.
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Find the Gap and Evaluate Solutions
After you gained knowledge about the attributes,
methodologies of the current state and deciding
on the future state, it is easier to recognize
the things that hinder you from reaching your
goals.
After identifying these gaps, come up with an
idea you need to take to close them.
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Implement a Plan to Bridge the Gap
The literature review helps analyze the current
state, the type of Methodologies currently being
used in a particular research field.
It helps identify the problem statement and
research question. Which helps the researcher
build a plan, and also they can modify the
current methodology so that they can achieve the
result they desire.
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Conclusion

• A gap analysis sheds focus on the current use of
  sources and shows how insufficient information
  can hold back your research work, which helps
  meet the performance goal and implement changes
  to close the gap.
• W riting a literature review for a research
  project is a long and complicated process.
• If you found any difficulty with the writing
  part, you can get help from online literature
  review service providers.

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