Annual Foundation Review
The fifth tier of the coherence layer. Its job is to check whether the year’s strategic evolution still fits the organisation’s stated foundation — mission, vision, values, beliefs, principles — and to confirm or revise each foundational element explicitly rather than default silently to last year’s version. Strategic bets are out of scope at this tier; they belong to the Quarterly Recalibration. (Strategy as Infrastructure, Ch 15)
Why it matters
Most organisations skip this entirely — values stay on the wall for years without re-examination, beliefs go unchallenged, and principles drift from operational reality. The annual foundation review makes this an explicit, scheduled event rather than an accident of crisis. It is the only coherence tier where foundation-level elements (values, beliefs, principles) are formally in scope for revision.
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