By pulling the future back to the present, one can clarify how to move toward that future. A Knowledge Age vision can be used to gauge the gaps between personal and organizational competencies and those needed for the Knowledge Age. One can also identify elements of the current culture that hinder one's capacity to move forward and craft strategies to overcome them. Using this vision as a template, one can identify barriers to achieving the growth opportunities in Knowledge Age learning and strategies and initiatives for overcoming them. One of the problems in identifying barriers and solutions is that they are analyzed in isolation.
Barriers are interdependent and solutions are multifaceted and holistic.