Spotlight on delivery in defence: Establishing continuous naval shipbuilding
The Challenge Our customer is building ships in the UK for a UK customer. With the award of the new contract, it has had to rapidly develop an export capability. This includes setting into operation an integrated team spanning two continents with a time zone difference giving minimal overlap of the working day. The technology and data were subject to legal, security and export controls, and had never previously been released outside the local operation. The first delivery was agreed to be a prototyping programme, to trial the new-build factory, to run all the processes and technology, and to create five blocks (around a third of a ship) before starting the full production ship build. The programme had committed to a First Cut Steel milestone for prototyping at the end of 2020.
Our customer has a rich heritage building ships for the Royal Navy. Its most recent product has been developed into a global product and has been successfully sold to allied countries. These geographies have established the programmes charged with taking the shipbuilding capability, processes, technology and ship design from the UK and implementing this in-country. New shipyards are being established and prototyping production of the variants is well under-way.
A Project One Partnership We were able to bring a small team of consultants with vast experience across the change lifecycle – we advised on the end-to-end implications of approaches and decisions as we built the understanding to inform on the full ship build process. Keeping a cool head, and working with the full range of stakeholders, our team shaped the change, coached stakeholders and built trust in the delivery. Even when the pandemic hit, we managed a seamless transition to remote working. Alongside our continued leadership, we have also handed over key roles to in-house resources to allow our customer to continue independently.
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