Definition
A board report is the recorded report through which the board sees the system working. Leadership oversight runs on its own clock: the report is created in Jigsaw, and its sections walk through what the board needs to see — the state of the system, what has moved, what the team has noticed — and the next report date advances on the schedule the organization set.
The report includes the GMR and what it has been doing since the last report — a trend for the board to follow, rather than a snapshot. What the board asks for is captured as tasks inside the report, and each becomes a card on the Tasks board, labeled as board-report work: oversight turned into work with owners and dates.
Why This Matters
The board carries the governance duty, and the report is how it discharges that duty visibly: a dated, defensible record that leadership saw the system and engaged with it. The strongest board reports show the system running — uncertainties found, candidates in testing, controls promoted. A quiet report is a signal in itself: look at Emergence before the board does.
Related Entries
- Governance Maturity Rating (GMR)
- The Board’s Role in SAM Risk Management
- Defensibility
- Emergence (GMR Modifier)