Our Year in Review:

Creating Impact in 2022

In 2022, a parliamentary report underscored the skills shortage businesses face, with employers valuing skills over degrees more than ever.

This demand aligns perfectly with our Mission Driven Entrepreneurship™ programmes, which equip students with skills crucial for careers in NetZero, sustainability, and diverse technological fields.

Our innovative approach to skills development unites higher education talent with real governmental challenges. Students work with government sponsors and industry mentors, using commercial-world tools like Lean Startup and Design Thinking, to tackle today's critical problems.

The outcome? Our alumni, equipped with hands-on skills complementing their theoretical university knowledge, are highly competitive in the job market.

This report spotlights our 2022 strides in enhancing the UK's National Innovation Base, motivating students towards government careers, imparting them with problem-solving approaches, augmenting their public sector understanding, fostering a new mindset within Government, and alongside our University and Industry partners, you will read how our innovative learning approach inspires and equips the next generation of leaders.

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Innovative education for the leaders of tomorrow, to solve the critical challenges of today

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Innovative education for the leaders of tomorrow, to solve the critical challenges of today |

To capitalise on the government’s investment in technology in the public and private sector, diverse talent in government is crucial. Talent that understands not only technology from a technical perspective, but how companies form, scale, and grow to become the industrial base necessary to achieve our goal of being a science superpower by 2030.
Not only is CMP raising the awareness of our government institutions, but we also expose public sector workers to how to think about problems differently. In 2022, we trained 62 government Problem Sponsors in our methodologies. Importantly, for Defence, the Sponsors are learning how to disrupt the “requirements” mindset and status quo; they learn the importance of being problem-led and that if the problem is wrong, the solution will never be right.
In 2022, the majority of problems were sponsored by the Ministry of Defence, and we expanded our reach across Defence organisations, sourcing a total of 60 problems. We have learned that the problems we source, and the commitment and enthusiasm of sponsors, are the most influential factors in a student wanting to work for the government.
In 2022, we saw an increase in our H4MoD programme's attendance - our highest ever. This boost broadened our talent pool, bringing more diverse perspectives to our vital partnership with the UK Ministry of Defence. Our collaboration ensures an enriched set of capabilities and perspectives.
The stakeholder ecosystem that developed from the students’ interviews is phenomenal - there were many parts of the military, industry, and wider academia that weren't on our radar, but we can now reach back into this broad network and carry on the conversation.

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“The Hacking4MoD module was instrumental in the achievement of my position at BAE systems. I am sure other students on the course would agree what an asset the module has been when writing job applications because of the unique and impactful experience it provides.”

— EMILY GLYNN, KCL WAR STUDIES, SPRING 2022

“Having sat through the recent H4MoD presentations, in my opinion [the student team] have conducted perhaps the most comprehensive attitudinal study of Royal Marine mentality for a generation and their work as an external focus of evaluation offers a powerful perspective and insight that we would do well to listen to.”

— LT COL SIMON TUCKER, PROBLEM SPONSOR, SPRING 2022

“Only by truly understanding the problems that front line operators face can we have any hope of solving them at the pace of relevance. The alternative - that is, the current status quo - is that focus is given to delivering on ‘requirements’, and maintaining processes, regardless of the outcome.”