
Acumen Learning
Balancing Business Acumen and Functional Excellence
Why is Business Acumen Important?
Two-Step Process:
The balance between functional excellence and business acumen is a simple two-step process: obtain knowledge and use it. Business acumen is the awareness of gaps between processes and systems and then knowing which direction to pivot in order to make intelligent decisions based on the circumstance. Functional excellence is implementing recognition and knowledge into production. You can’t run a successful business without both in sync. Essentially, to know and not to do is not to know.