Spotlight on delivery in defence: Meeting Export Control regulations
The Challenge Delivering a large-scale and complex programme of process and technology
Our customer is a British multinational defence and aerospace company, who had entered into an agreement in order to demonstrate an enhancement in the processes and controls it has in place to meet Export Control regulations. A Cross-Business-Unit Programme was set up, which includes a complex £tens of millions technology programme, comprising of six common solutions, spanning multiple business units and impacting c30,000 staff. Approximately a year after the programme was set up, the customer requested Project One’s support to manage the delivery of the technology programme and lead business change. This programme is ongoing and since our involvement, we have engaged senior stakeholders across multiple business units to bring clarity to plans, budgets, governance and working arrangements which improved the overall grip of the programme and brought stability to its delivery. We have overseen supplier negotiations and managed supplier delivery of the technology solutions put in place. An approach to business change was agreed with the programme board, executed upon and a change network across the business units was established, setting them up for successful delivery of the business change.
change, which aims to achieve standardisation across a diverse base of autonomous business units. Each of the business units presented different requirements and expectations of the solutions, which were at times incompatible and in need of alignment and close management A programme that was already underway and needed further planning rigour and governance, alongside a bottom up review of the plans and budgets. We also needed to supplement the internal team to bring more experience of programmes of this scale and complexity and were also charged with developing and coaching the customer team in need of extensive support and coaching A lack of clarity as to how sustainable change would be co-ordinated and delivered in a consistent manner across multiple business units employing c30,000 staff impacted.
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