# Realization Rate

The share of a business case's promised benefit — or a strategy's promised value — actually captured. The most direct measure of the execution gap.

The realization rate is the share of promised value actually captured: the benefit realized as a fraction of the benefit a business case, or a strategy, committed to. It is the most direct single measure of the strategy-execution gap, expressed as a percentage rather than a diagnosis.

Unusually, the term is shared without translation across the private-equity and operator dialects — both sides should watch the same number. A portfolio realizing 60% of its promised value has roughly two-fifths of that value still on the table, which is why the realization rate is often the single most revealing figure in a portfolio review.

### Commonly confused

Delivery completion. A program can be 100% delivered and still have a low realization rate, because delivery counts outputs while realization counts captured benefit.

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