The Strategic Coherence Deck
Change how strategy is examined.
Strategic plans make choices visible. They don't necessarily make the reasoning underneath those choices visible.
What it does
The reasoning underneath the plan, made visible.
The Strategic Coherence Deck was designed to do exactly that.
It helps boards and leadership teams examine what matters, where strategic attention belongs, what depends on what, and whether claims about intended change are supported by organisational reality and evidence.
The architecture
It works across five movements.
Cards are introduced when the conversation requires them, not marched through in sequence.
Orient
Purpose & Position
Establish Purpose and Position.
Focus
Where attention matters
Find where strategic attention matters.
Connect
Dependencies
Explore dependencies and tensions.
Test
Intention to evidence
Examine intention, design, reality and evidence.
Respond
Decide
Decide what the thinking requires.
Around that architecture sit probes, challenges and diagnostic tools that help groups question what might otherwise pass unnoticed.
The result isn't another strategic plan template. It's a way of thinking more rigorously about the strategy you're creating, reviewing or already trying to enact.
Clarity
about what matters.
Confidence
in how it connects.
Change
that can be evidenced.
In the box
What you actually get
A complete, physical set of 106 cards spanning orientation, focus, dependencies, tests, probes, challenges and diagnostics, built for the boardroom table.
Plus probes, diagnostic tools and the dividers that hold the five movements together.
Put your strategy under the right kind of pressure.
The Strategic Coherence Deck is the working system inside Synnovate's Strategic Coherence workshops, where boards and leadership teams plan, review and test whether a strategy genuinely holds together.
Used in Synnovate workshops · Part of the Synnovate Suite
Strategic Coherence by Design
