Quarterly Recalibration
The fourth tier of the coherence layer. Its job is to check whether the quarter’s strategic moves still fit the annual foundation, and to adjust the set of strategic bets — new strategies, retired strategies, repositioned bets, reallocated resources. Critically, it is not a briefing session; information transfer has already happened continuously throughout the quarter, so the session opens with the team already aligned on what has changed. Its success metric is the proportion of time spent on strategic adjustment versus information transfer. (Strategy as Infrastructure, Ch 15)
Why it matters
The quarterly recalibration is the closest analogue to the traditional quarterly business review, but the experience is fundamentally different. Because information transfer happened through the sensing layer and the lower coherence tiers throughout the quarter, the meeting is pure decision-making. A well-run quarterly recalibration spends more than 80% of its time on strategic adjustment, not on catching up. If it reverts to briefing format, the rhythm has regressed.
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