THE BRITISH ARMY
From Crossfield ’ s perspective , the two most pressing struggles have been around resourcing and delivery . The former resulted from what he calls “ a prioritisation war between a complete transformation in the Army and a future soldier , a spending review , and various other things ” which initially made acquiring the necessary funding tricky .
“ We ' ve now got the programme fullyfunded to deliver the staff it needs , which took us to the end of the first year . The second thing that we need to do more of now is delivery . So , at the end of that first year , having done a programme review and worked with the DCGS – who was our sponsor – we agreed that the programme is now in a position where it really needs to start doubling down on delivery . We subsequently recast the programme , and the term we ' ve used for that is ‘ same material , different mould ’, which I quite like , because we ' re not fundamentally changing it , but there is now a real focus on delivery ,” he explains .
Marching
to the beat of digital transformation
42 January 2023