Treehouse, helping to deliver transformation in Royal Navy training

Written By Kato Essential
Treehouse in the iMAST programme to transform and modernise Royal Navy training

Treehouse is part of Team iMAST (Intelligent Maritime Adaptive Synthetics and Training) - the innovation ecosystem which will collectively modernise and transform Royal Navy training over the next 12 years.

About iMAST

iMAST was formed in 2019 by an industry and academic alliance including Babcock, QinetiQ, Thales, Centerprise International, Learning Technologies Group, University of Portsmouth and University of Strathclyde with the simple vision: working in true partnership with the customer to transform and modernise Royal Navy training in innovative ways that will deliver more, better trained Royal Navy people to the front line quicker.

The innovation ecosystem to support and deliver iMAST includes more than 50 experienced, specialist SMEs of which Treehouse is one, and a dedicated programme website announced the consortium in June 2020.  

“iMAST is committed to playing its part in realising the vision of a modern Royal Navy; its people better trained and more capable than ever before and meeting today’s and the future’s operational needs.”

— John Howie: CEO Babcock Marine and Technology – lead contractor in the iMAST Alliance

The Treehouse Role - delivering innovation in training

We were selected to be involved as a result of our experience and expertise in unlocking opportunity and catalysing change through people.  Our specific role, though changing and evolving as the programme develops, will be to:

  • Quickly and effectively gain powerful insights into what the trainers and trainees need.

  • Leveraging that insight to co-create with trainers and trainees a vision of what new solutions might look like.

  • Testing and refining the vision iteratively until the right solution is established.

How will we deliver this?

  • Crowdsourcing

  • Workshops

  • Interviews and Listening Groups

  • Analytics

  • Structured testing processes

The trick for a good programme is the blending together of insight at the individual level and then amalgamating into good principles for the programme as a whole.  Agility at the individual level is key as it more accurately adds up to a training solution with outcomes contributing to an ever evolving yet ‘FutureFit’ Royal Navy service as a whole.

Why Treehouse?

We’re experts in empowering people and teams to unlock potential, growth and opportunity using proven tools to encourage different thinking, identifying fresh approaches and improve organisational effectiveness, innovation and collaboration.

We use insight as a springboard for everything we do.  Within iMAST we’ll be using insight to co-create solutions that fit perfectly, hand in glove with focus on the individual to develop solutions that deliver results for the whole. The whole ends up being more than the sum of its parts. 

We catalyse change, one person at a time.

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