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got a really good sort of head of steam there around our leadership and around our people .
The second one is about – and we are not there yet , but we ' re definitely accelerating – shifting mindsets , and I think there ' s a cultural thread to this . Are we , as an army , fighting within a joint , combined multi-domain and alliance force defined by the thickness of our armour , our gun line , our platforms and our weapons system ? Yes , but the shift in thinking that we ' re able to really accelerate from now is moving from that platform-centric approach through to network-centricity to data-centricity .
The third point I ' d pull out there is about people . We ’ re more than sure that , within the digital and data competency of all of our people , there ’ s not a niche specialist tucked away , but that the situation has pivoted almost overnight , so we need now to upskill our people in all sorts of areas .
How does all that come together ? MGC : So we ' re working right now to bottle all of that together to really define in the forest of transformation , where there is a lot of woods and trees , what does all that look like ? What makes us better ? How does all that come together ? So we ' re just writing that at the moment to really set our level of ambition , which we look to share with partners in industry , academia , allies , and other agencies and defence .

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