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Quarterly Strategy Review Template

Balanced Scorecard 120 min Quarterly Leadership team and strategy owners (6-12 people)

A quarterly strategy review is the leadership team stepping back from execution to ask whether the strategy is still right and still working. Unlike a backward-looking results review, it is forward-looking: the point is to test assumptions, adapt the plan, and realign before the next quarter rather than discovering drift at year end.

When to use it

Run it once a quarter, after the period closes, as the strategic counterpart to your operating reviews. Where the monthly operating review and weekly business review ask whether the business is running well, the quarterly strategy review asks whether it is running toward the right destination.

Who attends

Bring the leadership team and the owners of the strategic goals, six to twelve people. The room should be senior enough to change the plan and small enough to actually decide. Detailed execution belongs in other meetings; this one is about direction.

How to run it

Open by restating the strategy so everyone shares context, then review progress on the strategic goals. The heart of the meeting is testing assumptions: the world the strategy was built for shifts, and a good review surfaces where reality has diverged from the plan. Decide what to adapt, reallocate resources to match, and close with a focused set of priorities and owners for the next quarter. The deliverable is a deliberately adjusted strategy, not just a progress report.

Facilitator tips

  • Spend real time testing assumptions, not just reading results.
  • Make adapting the plan a normal act, not an admission of failure.
  • Reallocate resources to match the adapted strategy explicitly.
  • Leave with a focused set of priorities and clear owners.

Common mistakes

  • Reviewing progress but never questioning the strategy itself.
  • Treating the original plan as fixed when the world has moved.
  • Adapting goals on paper without moving any resources.
  • Ending with broad intentions instead of owned priorities.

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Agenda

120 minutes total · 6 sections

  1. Strategy recap and theme 15 min
    Restate the strategy and the priorities for the year so the review stays anchored to the chosen direction.
  2. Progress against strategic goals 25 min
    Review each strategic goal against target, discussing what drove the result and whether the trajectory holds.
  3. Test strategic assumptions 25 min
    Revisit the assumptions underneath the strategy and ask whether the market and the business still support them.
  4. Adapt the plan 25 min
    Decide what to change: which goals to push, which to drop, and where the strategy needs to bend to new information.
  5. Resourcing and trade-offs 15 min
    Reallocate attention and resources to match the adapted plan, making trade-offs explicit.
  6. Next-quarter priorities and owners 15 min
    Confirm the few priorities for the coming quarter, assign owners, and agree how progress will be tracked.

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