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How do you drive digital transformation at scale in a complex organization like the U.S. Navy? In this insightful session from Prodacity 2025, Justin Fanelli, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Department of the Navy, shares his approach to breaking bureaucracy, accelerating innovation, and ensuring data-driven decisions lead to real outcomes.

From Operation Cattle Drive, which forces underperforming programs to "sing for their lunch," to World-Class Alignment Metrics (WhAMs) for measuring impact, Fanelli reveals how the Navy is disrupting itself to modernize faster than ever.

🔹 Key Topics Covered:

Why the Navy is shifting from programs to portfolios
How data-driven decision-making is replacing legacy bureaucracy
Measuring innovation impact with World-Class Alignment Metrics (WhAMs)
Why "if it takes too long, it doesn’t work" in government transformation
How the Navy is eliminating failing programs & contracts
The critical role of "Mavericks" in government change efforts
🕒 Key Highlights & Timestamps:
[00:03] - Introduction: Why innovation in the Navy must scale faster
[01:00] - The Navy’s shift to portfolio-based decision-making
[02:35] - World-Class Alignment Metrics (WhAMs): Measuring real outcomes
[05:44] - Shutting down underperforming programs with Operation Cattle Drive
[06:53] - Why programs must "sing for their lunch" to survive
[08:12] - Getting inside the funding OODA loop to move faster
[09:24] - The importance of execution over perfect ideas
[10:33] - Lessons from 25 pilot programs: What works and what doesn’t
[12:20] - Why incrementalism is an "irrelevance tactic" in digital transformation
[13:13] - Measuring across portfolios: Mission outcomes over traditional KPIs
[14:55] - How the Navy translated business metrics into military effectiveness
[16:36] - Creating a culture of comfort with ambiguity & rapid iteration
[18:30] - The three key strategies for driving change inside large organizations
[19:24] - The power of collective bragging to shift the status quo
[22:22] - Where the Navy is today: Crossing the chasm of innovation adoption
[24:19] - "It’s time for us to be the house"—making innovation the default

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