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The Opportunity Gap is where most management spends very little time. This is the area of innovation and execution related to future markets and products, and in developing those strategic core competencies that create and sustain strategic competitive advantage. This is where no competitors exist and where customers will flock when new products and offerings are developed. Barris Lotterer Management Consulting (BLMC) helps companies with these opportunity gap issues:

• Winning in a Short Cycle Time Marketplace - having achieved very short cycle times, how do you take advantage?
• Pursuing New Markets - creating a stable environment for the creation of new products and service offerings; planning for the horizon.
• Service vs. Product Sales - defining the growing role of services in a product company.
• The Development of Strategic Core Competence - the management discipline of becoming Best-in-Class in a relatively short period of time.
• The Conception of the Ecosystem - how a company can get the benefits of Economies-of-Scale without having to own the functions; beyond alliances.
• Moving to a Variable Cost Company - optimizing core competencies within the company and effectively controlling the outsourcing of everything else; managing risk through others.