Designing governance forums that planners actually attend

We keep governance forums short by circulating a bias packet 48 hours early. The packet lists top deviations, links to assumption logs, and names the owner of each override bucket. During the session we enforce a simple rule: every change to the forecast references a documented commercial action. That discipline sounds rigid, yet it speeds up decisions because the room stops relitigating history. For Korean retail peaks—Chuseok, Seollal, and summer beverage spikes—we add a parallel track for promotional uplifts. Finance sees the same uplift table operations uses, which prevents duplicate “fix-it” meetings later in the quarter. After the forum, we archive decisions with timestamps. That archive becomes the training corpus for new planners joining after reorganisations.