Broken Traceability
A form of misalignment in which strategy exists but nothing executes against it. The strategy says one thing; day-to-day work says another. Direction without commitment. (Strategy as Infrastructure, Ch 8)
Why it matters
Broken traceability is the inverse of orphaned initiatives. Where orphaned initiatives describe work without strategy, broken traceability describes strategy without work. Both are detectable only when every initiative explicitly links to a strategy and every strategy traces to foundation — structural traceability that documents cannot provide.
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