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Workflow 10 — Decision Governance

Strategic & board decisions.

Every board-level decision recorded with rationale, supporting evidence from workflows 1–9, and outcome tracking through the next strategic cycle.

Tier
Apex
Primary role
CEO and Board
Available in
Enterprise

What goes wrong without it

Board file is a deck

The record of a decision often lives in the slides, not in a structured, reconstructable form.

Evidence not linked

Operational evidence supporting a board decision lives in different systems and may be hard to retrieve later.

Outcomes not tracked

The next strategic cycle starts before the last one's decisions are evaluated against actuals.

The shared decision anatomy

Every workflow follows the same five steps. Here’s how strategic & board decisions uses them, with the artifact captured at each step.

01 Signal
Capital event, M&A opportunity, strategic-plan checkpoint, risk-appetite review, succession trigger. Annual risk-appetite refresh triggered ahead of strategic-plan adoption.
→ Trigger record
02 Owner
CEO with Board / committee of jurisdiction (Risk, Audit, Compensation, Nominating). Committee charter drives routing.
→ Committee assignment
03 Decision
Position taken with rationale, supporting evidence drawn from workflows 1–9, and dissent recorded.
→ Board decision record
04 Action
Decision recorded in board record; cascading actions assigned to executives with timelines.
→ Cascade plan
05 Outcome
Board decisions are reconstructable in full — and tied to operating evidence, not just the deck.
→ Outcome record

What you’ll see

A live view of every item, its owner, its deadline, and the evidence behind its current status.

Board decision log — 2026 Sample

Decisions YTD

9

In cascade

4

Outcomes pending

5

Linked evidence

47

ID Decision Committee Date Status
BD-2026-04 Risk appetite refresh — credit, IRR, ops Risk Committee May 14 Approved
BD-2026-06 Capital plan — stress scenario Risk Committee Jun 11 Cascade in flight
BD-2026-07 M&A opportunity — Tier 2 review Board Jun 25 Under review
BD-2026-03 CEO succession framework Nominating Apr 16 Adopted

Evidence captured

Decision memo + rationale
Linked workflow evidence (1–9)
Dissent + minority positions
Cascade actions + owners
Outcome through next cycle

Built for the CEO and Board

Replaces the board deck assembled retrospectively from email, shared drives, and operational reports. The board file is a living record with operational evidence already linked.

Operational inheritance

Workflow 10 is the apex tier. It inherits structured evidence from Workflows 01–09 automatically: every board-level decision — capital, M&A, strategic plan, risk appetite, succession — ties back to the operational record beneath it. The board file is no longer a deck assembled in retrospect; it is a living record with operational evidence already linked.

How to start

Workflow 10 is the apex layer and is unlocked with the Enterprise tier only. Enterprise unlocks all ten workflows — the nine operational workflows plus this apex workflow linking strategic decisions to operational evidence beneath. Talk to us about scoping.