Where is change needed?

   GAP Analysis helps individuals or groups realize effective decision making

• Guide the course and direction of the allocation of resource and the achievement of organizational mission priorities
• Decisions in regards to the distribution of money, time, effort and people
• Applicable on the individual, local, state/regional and Federal level.

How to realize the change?

   Force Field analysis

• This technique uses a concept from physics to examine the forces for and against change.
• Force Field Analysis can be used to develop an action plan to implement a change.

• GAP Analysis tool, from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

• Force Field Analysis description and general information (Prepared by Oliver Ferguson and Kathryn Heinz, July 2014, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign)

• MIT: Learning & Development Planning for Change: The Force Field Tool​

New York Times article suggested by Prof. Cohen; Major Foundations, Eager for Big Change, Aim High, by David Gelles