Lockheed Martin's path to digital transformation through innovation (MAM105)

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Lockheed Martin's Innovation Journey with AWS

Executive Sponsorship is Crucial

• Executive leaders must embrace and enable true transformation by empowering teams to unlock innovation.
• Change agents and catalysts can push the organization to do more and challenge the status quo.

Lockheed Martin's Background

• Lockheed Martin is a global security company with a long history of innovation.
• They operate across diverse business areas like Aeronautics, Missiles and Fire Control, Rotary and Mission Systems, and Space.
• Lockheed Martin is facing challenges around increasing complexity, speed, and external market trends, driving the need for digital transformation.

Leveraging AWS and the EBA Framework

• Lockheed Martin partnered with AWS to accelerate their cloud journey and enable innovation through the Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) framework.
• EBA is a highly immersive, agile, and hands-on methodology that helps organizations address people, process, and technology challenges in their cloud transformation.

Key EBA Engagements at Lockheed Martin

1. Migration Party:

   • Automated the deployment of a complex, monolithic application, reducing deployment time from 16 hours to 45 minutes.
   • Achieved a 90% reduction in deployment time for critical applications.

2. Modernization Party:

   • Built a robust Disaster Recovery (DR) solution for their "Lightspeed" environment using AWS services.
   • Unlocked new capabilities and modernized their approach to DR.

3. Innovation Party:

   • Launched "Beta Box" - an innovation platform that empowers developers to experiment and learn in a cost-conscious, self-service environment.
   • Fostered a culture of innovation and agility across the organization.

Building an Innovation Factory

• Lockheed Martin is establishing an "Innovation Factory" as an operating model to institutionalize the principles and practices learned through the EBA engagements.
• The goal is to scale the change agent mindset, enable cross-team collaboration, and demonstrate tangible execution and delivery of innovative solutions.

Advice for Transformation Success

• Executive sponsorship and empowerment of change agents are key to driving successful transformation.
• Focus on outcomes, create a culture of agility, and leverage the hands-on, experiential learning approach of EBA to accelerate the cloud journey.
• Reach out to your AWS team to get started with your own cloud party and unlock the power of innovation.