Earlier sections of this report have referred to a number of important issues around the working of the MoD acquisition process and organisation, such as the behavioural biases towards optimism and consistent project performance shortfalls, particularly in timeliness. Wide ranging discussions with stakeholders and others parties with experience or insight have highlighted a number of other issues with the system which, in their view are detrimental to the efficiency and effectiveness of acquisition, and are either not being addressed by current change programmes, or in some cases, are being exacerbated by transformation underway. These are described below.