Most Operational Transformations Fail in the Last 100 Feet.
Not because the strategy was wrong or the technology didn’t work. Because the management systems needed to turn leadership intent into consistent daily execution were never built.
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The Execution Gap
Why Manufacturing Transformations Fail in the Last 100 Feet
By Gerald Tice. The diagnosis and the method behind everything on this site, drawn from three decades and more than 600 engagements. Hardcover, paperback and Kindle.
One-minute screen
Execution Maturity Quick Check
Rate each function 1 to 4 from what you see on the floor, not what the procedure says. The lowest-rated function is your constraint, the department where the work starts. The ratings below are examples. Adjust each function to match your operation.
This is a gut-feel screen, not the Execution Maturity Index. The formal EMI scores 16 observable behaviors in each department and produces a structured, behavior-based score.
What is your execution gap costing you?
A rough Opportunity Gap from one loss you can see today: production time lost to the same problems, week after week. Replace the example assumptions with your operating figures.
Who this is for
Plant managers
“How do I make it stick on my floor?”
Start with the Quick Check, then work through the Companion Workbook on your own floor.
Manufacturing executives
“Why don’t our improvements hold?”
Read The Method for the short version, then the book for the five failure points and the blueprint.
PE operating partners
“How do I read execution capability across a portfolio?”
The EMI gives you a department-level baseline before close and an Opportunity Gap you can track after it.
How the pieces fit
Understand
The Execution Gap
The book. Why execution breaks down in the same place every time, and the blueprint for operator-grade execution.
Diagnose and build
Companion Workbook
Free, chapter by chapter. Diagnose the gap on your own floor and start building the system that closes it.
The framework
The Method
What connects them: the EMI to locate the gap, the MOS to close it, and the 25-week architecture to make it hold.