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What's your experience trying to bring the same approach to Australia? In my experience, Defence/military here have been incredibly close-minded and resistant
by avinium 9y ago
What's your experience trying to bring the same approach to Australia?
In my experience, Defence/military here have been incredibly close-minded and resistant to change.
- chriselles 9y agoHi Avinium, I’ve found slices of the US military to be incredibly innovative, forward thinking, and willing to take lots of small calculated risks. The USMC maker efforts are one bottom up effort, and I’m aware of a fantastic Air Force effort that has excellent support as well. Australia’s effort is more recent, I’m helping them to develop in-house innovation training as well as helping to shape an in-house innovation ecosystem/pipeline. I think a big part of successful implementation is culture change. On operations, we are expected to take calculated risks that include failing at times, in order to learn and iterate. The biggest issue is that in a homefront “camp” environment, everyone becomes risk averse due to frequent posting cycles(officers usually change roles every 2-3 years). Short posting cycles contradict the need for much longer term innovation pipeline outputs. I hope that helps?