NASA
Orion Forward Bay Cover at Lockheed Martin near Denver
pace of delivery for everything we do in the organisation .
“ The big play here is for digital transformation to be the integrator across the agency , to take that enterprise perspective , to see where the common functionalities and common pain points exist and to look at where we can bring enterprise solutions to resolve these . People are getting behind this and we have a goal of increasing our pace of delivery over the next three to five years by about 25 per cent .”
End goals in digital transformation tend to be speculative . There ’ s a notional idea of progress with a view to revising systems and processes as new technologies and ideas emerge . But NASA is an organisation that prides itself on having big dreams with definitive end points and its digital transformation is no exception . “ We do not want this to be an effort that extends into perpetuity ,” says Thompson . “ We ’ re successful when everything the IT shop does is baked into everything . We need to remove the barriers of entry for our work . We ’ re putting ourselves out of business . We need to change that mindset and culture so that everything we do is inculcated and infused
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