Spotlight on delivery in defence: Enterprise Portfolio Management - Prioritising investment at a time of crisis
Project One continues to support many other global defence businesses
The Challenge After several re-organisations, aimed at reducing IT costs, the organisation had lost experience and capability. Faced with an impending restart to the financial year, they looked to external organisations to help and asked Project One to support in mobilising, operationalising and scaling an Enterprise Portfolio Office (EPO). Our Approach Within just 35 days, a joint team of staff and Project One consultants: Rapidly mobilised the team and launched the new set of EPO services, tailored to an improved governance model Migrated and cleansed data from existing systems Configured and implemented an enterprise wide tool and trained 100 staff globally for the start of the financial year. The Value Add and Outcomes Introduced Agile ways of working underpinned by best practice models A service built that matched the organisation’s needs, that could be operated by the internal team in the long-term. Investments are more focussed on future end-customer needs, staff have a much-improved experience in identifying, selecting, managing and delivering investments, and the operating businesses throughout the globe have a clearer, up to the minute picture on progress on their individual investments. “Project One has a team of absolute superstars and life savers. I can chuck stuff at them that just gets done, they are my sounding board on everything and the only people I feel really “get it” like I do. Feeling the pain, understanding the challenge and helping in more ways than could ever be expected.” Head of IT Portfolio World leading manufacturing organisation
In addition to the engagements spotlighted in this book, Project One continues to grow in this critical sector. We are currently supporting six major defence customers with a variety of their change challenges. Some highlights are: Playing a leading role across a Business and IT portfolio – supporting a venture to prepare their manufacturing and supporting technology estate to deliver an mechanised infantry vehicle and new generation tank. We provide delivery leadership for the entire IT services suite, plus a new SAP environment at the heart of the manufacturing process Leading a major transformation programme to deliver a factory of the future. This change will digitise and modernise operations and enhance business performance Leading the Transformation Programme for maintenance process improvement – shaped, mobilised and now delivering this critical initiative aimed at making step change improvements to the efficiency and effectiveness of the maintenance process. This programme is central to securing on-going contractual opportunities to support the MOD Played a key role in the Organisational Development Review Programme – provided a team of organisational design and business change experts to support this business-wide programme aimed at achieving signification cost savings through restructuring and changing ways of working. Applying circular economy concepts to military equipment support chains can bring operational, training, financial and environmental benefits. It offers huge potential - a quadruple bottom-line potential! We are designing circularity interventions in the military equipment supply chain that will give equipment managers better visibility of the engineering reality of unserviceable equipment and a facility to survey and repair, or strip down and recycle. Find out more. Defence manufacturers are scaling up to meet today’s global security challenges. Accelerated deployment of Industry 4.0 solutions can make a big contribution, if done in the right way. At Project One, we are helping customers to do this, overcoming the barriers to “smart factories at scale”. Find out more. Should your defence business face complex change challenges, then please get in touch and we will talk you through how Project One partners with organisations in this sector to deliver exceptional results from your investment.
Our customer is one of the world’s leading manufacturing organisations. Customer support, manufacturing and business support are distributed globally, and the company invests £100m’s annually in technology, delivering transformation and continuous improvement for customers, staff and suppliers. They were in the process of making a significant improvement to their IT Portfolio Management capability when demand dropped beyond any reasonable expectation and the strategic outlook turned from growth to protecting the business for the years ahead.
“The purpose of the Ministry of Defence is to protect the people of the United Kingdom, prevent conflict and be ready to fight our enemies. Our purpose at Project One is to make a difference. We are immensely proud of the work we continue to deliver across the Defence enterprise to ensure that as a nation we are prepared for the present and fit for the future.” Steve Calder • Defence Sector Lead for Project One
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