{"id":1290,"date":"2026-10-18T20:53:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2026-11-05T20:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T03:54:13","slug":"boards-are-talking-strategy-more-often-testing-it-is-the-hard-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"Boards are talking strategy more often. Testing it is the hard part."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">70% of public company directors say strategy now comes up more often in the boardroom, and 51% report more strategy talk between meetings, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/as-strategy-cycles-shorten-nacds-2026-blue-ribbon-commission-redefines-how-boards-should-oversee-execution-302905815.html\">NACD&#8217;s 2026 Governance Outlook Survey<\/a>. NACD&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacdonline.org\/strategy-execution-oversight\">Blue Ribbon Commission report<\/a> asks boards to agree on what success looks like, stress-test key assumptions and set signals that trigger a closer look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Testing an assumption takes something to test it against.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Strategist<\/strong><\/em> is built for that: an independent strategy for any public company, with management&#8217;s benchmarked against it and every source shown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which assumption in your strategy hasn&#8217;t been tested lately? <a href=\"https:\/\/strategist.intelligenxe.com\">strategist.intelligenxe.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>70% of public company directors say strategy now comes up more often in the boardroom, and 51% report more strategy talk between meetings, per NACD&#8217;s 2026 Governance Outlook Survey. NACD&#8217;s new Blue Ribbon Commission report asks boards to agree on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/?p=1290\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}