Client Synopsis
Australian Submarine Corporation (ASC)Organisation Overview
The Australian Submarine Corporation (ASC) was originally established in 1985 to build the Collins Class submarine fleet. 32 years later it has evolved into a corporation that employs over 2,600 staff around Australia and is involved in the design and building of Navy capital assets – submarines and ships. It is currently delivering, in partnership with CASG and Raytheon, the Air Warfare Destroyers (AWD), is bidding for the Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) contract, has been awarded the build activity of the Future Submarine Program (FSP) in conjunction with DCNS and runs the maintenance contract for the Collins Class submarines. The ASC business has evolved into many more areas than it previously was involved in.
Fragile to Agile Engagement
Partially because of the above growth and diversification into broader areas of sovereign Defence asset building and maintenance, ASC determined that it was an appropriate time to re-assess its operating model and the information technology it just to support it. Fragile to Agile (F2A) engaged to build an enterprise business capability model for the organisation to drive this assessment of its operating model and current technology environment. Within ASC, Shipbuilding and the Submarine business had typically been run as stand-alone businesses and ASC sought an understanding of its capabilities and the technology that supported them, particularly with regards to their ability to support future work, such as the FSP program and the Future Frigates (FFG) program.
F2A engaged with the executive and the IT Architecture function within the organisation to deliver an executive view of the BCM, an architecture level BCM (integrated into Sparx-EA), a detailed list of business outcomes and several heatmaps that showed where the current state concentration of IT was within the organisation, and how it helped (or hindered) delivering the business capabilities. The value to the ASC of this work was in making major IT decisions clear for the organisation, in support of the new business that it was going to deliver on in the future, such as the FSP. The intention was to then move forward to develop a business capability and business needs driven target state for technology at ASC. This step has been put on hold due to an impending major corporate re-structure announced by the federal government to potentially split the organisation into a few smaller entities.