“ WE FORM CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAMS BY PULLING A SELECT GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS FROM THE CORE FUNCTIONS OF THE AIR FORCE ”
BLYTHE CRAWFORD OBE GROUP CAPTAIN , ROYAL AIR FORCE
dedicated building at Leeming that will grow into an innovation incubator .
“ One of the first things I did when I arrived here was a poll across the station asking everybody what are the top 10 things that annoyed them about the RAF ,” recalls Crawford . “ They gave me a list of 64 . So we decided to roll our sleeves up , started at the top and addressed some of those – and the majority were to do with our processes and digital transformation in terms of the methodology that we apply here .
“ We form crossfunctional teams by pulling a select group of individuals from the core functions of the Air Force . We run sprints against that problem until we develop a minimum viable product . The core innovation team will then take that innovative product development a little bit further and then what we do is we put it back into the continuous
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