desider - Issue 37 - June 2011 PDF
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Radical<br />
rethink on<br />
management<br />
of sites<br />
where DE&S<br />
staff work<br />
New organisation to focus on<br />
offices, naval bases, barracks,<br />
depots, training areas and<br />
ranges in the UK and overseas<br />
“However, key to our success<br />
will be getting things right in four<br />
areas; embedding the right business<br />
processes and supporting these with<br />
robust information systems to deliver<br />
our outputs; getting the appropriate<br />
organisational structure and governance;<br />
appropriate business processes; and<br />
exhibiting the right behaviours leading<br />
to trust between the organisation and its<br />
users.”<br />
Mr olney added that<br />
this will enable Dio<br />
to take a defence-wide<br />
view in strategically<br />
managing the military<br />
estate – both in the<br />
balance of investment<br />
and enabling military<br />
capability. it centralises<br />
MoD management of<br />
infrastructure, reduced<br />
costs, improves estate<br />
use and drives further<br />
rationalisation.<br />
A new strategic<br />
Asset Management<br />
team will translate<br />
defence infrastructure<br />
requirements into a<br />
strategic programme<br />
to deliver what the<br />
Armed Forces require to<br />
continue defending the<br />
uK. Crucially it will aim<br />
to improve the utilisation<br />
of the estate.<br />
A lot of work has gone<br />
into merging all MoD<br />
infrastructure funding<br />
and posts into the new organisation.<br />
subsequent phases will transform the<br />
organisation into a new leaner structure.<br />
This is likely to reduce the number<br />
of MoD non-industrial and military<br />
posts involved in managing defence<br />
infrastructure over the next three years.<br />
The transformation strategy should<br />
provide better value for money by using<br />
Under revamped management: Oak<br />
Building at Abbey Wood<br />
defence reform<br />
The ranges at Lulworth in<br />
Dorset provide gunnery ranges<br />
for crews operating armoured<br />
fighting vehicles to train. It also<br />
supports training activities for<br />
many other UK military units<br />
resources differently. For example,<br />
the next generation estate Contracts<br />
programme will develop regional<br />
frameworks for MoD construction<br />
projects. And defence infrastructure<br />
staff have already been working on<br />
rationalising ‘soft’ facilities management<br />
(FM) contracts, for support services<br />
such as cleaning and catering. This<br />
was the first step towards Dio taking<br />
responsibility for ‘Total FM’.<br />
As Britain re-assesses the military<br />
capability needed to keep the nation<br />
safe in the coming decades, the new<br />
organisation must focus on getting the<br />
right estate at the right quality for the<br />
right price.<br />
Andrew Manley added: “our Armed<br />
Forces deserve the best we can give them.<br />
There is a lot of hard work ahead, but<br />
Dio will help to ensure that we deliver an<br />
affordable and sustainable military estate<br />
which will help our military personnel to<br />
do the difficult jobs we ask them to do.”<br />
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