Board reports

A board does not need your full capability inventory. It needs a defensible picture of where the program stands, where it is going, and what that costs. Forest gives you the inputs to build that picture without manual spreadsheet work.

Start with the headline. Your Forest Score (0 to 100) is the single number a board can anchor on. Because it combines Org Score, goal alignment, capability coverage, and execution discipline, you can explain not just the number but what moves it.

What to include

• The Forest Score and its trend. One number, plus direction since the last review.

• Domain scores. Twelve domains let you show strength and weakness without drowning the room in detail.

• Top priorities. The highest-priority capabilities, ranked by (target maturity minus current maturity) times criticality. This is where requested budget goes.

• Peer comparison. How your performance compares to a privacy-preserving peer average for your industry and size. Frame a peer delta as a performance difference, not a deficiency.

Every number traces to its inputs. If a director asks why a domain scored low, you can point to the specific capabilities and maturity levels behind it. Forest is deterministic, so the same assessment always produces the same result.

Keep the deck short and let the detail live in Forest. See Explaining scores to leadership for language that lands with a non-technical audience, and Exporting summaries to pull the figures out.