Performance gap analysis, often shortened to gap analysis, examines particular aspects of business for problems and suggests solutions for these problems. It is a diagnosis-oriented analysis that pinpoints where an organization or individual is NOT doing what needs to be done by comparing current conditions ...
Continue reading... The opposite of idealistic is pragmatic, a word that describes a philosophy of doing what works best.. From Greek pragma deed, the word has historically described philosophers and politicians who were concerned more with real-world application of ideas than with abstract notions.
1. Dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical. 2. Philosophy Of or relating to pragmatism. 3. Linguistics Of or relating to pragmatics. 4. Relating to or being the study of cause and effect in historical or political events with emphasis on the practical lessons to be learned from them.