In HRIS project planning, what does a gap analysis help identify?

• A. The difference between current state and desired future state
• B. The variance between budget and forecast
• C. The gap in customer satisfaction vs employee satisfaction
• D. The difference between vendors' offerings

Answer: (A)

In HRIS project planning, a gap analysis identifies the difference between the current state and the desired future state. This helps reveal what capabilities, data quality, processes, integrations, and security controls are missing or inadequate to reach the target system. By clarifying these gaps, you can define the requirements, scope, and resources needed for the implementation. Financial variances (budget vs forecast), satisfaction gaps (customer vs employee), and differences between vendors’ offerings are not about identifying the internal readiness to achieve the future state, so they fall outside this specific analysis.