BCS Consultancy has appointed Chris Coward as its new Chief Working Officer, because the enterprise targets its subsequent section of development within the knowledge centre market.
The London-headquartered consultancy stated Coward will take accountability for strengthening operational supply as BCS expands throughout key markets in EMEA and past, at a time when demand for scalable and extra sustainable knowledge centre capability is being pushed by AI workloads and wider digital infrastructure development.
The appointment follows the departure of Scott Shearer, certainly one of BCS’ co-founders, who has stepped down after a decade with the enterprise.
Coward joined BCS in 2017 as certainly one of its early staff and has spent eight years serving to to construct its undertaking administration functionality and supporting the corporate’s transition from a UK-focused operation right into a multi-region consultancy.
In asserting the transfer, BCS stated it has grown to greater than 165 specialists throughout 5 workplaces worldwide, and claims to have supported greater than 300 tasks. The agency additionally stated it has suggested on greater than £20 billion of funding and generates greater than £22 million in annual income.
“I’ve had the privilege of working carefully with James and Scott for a lot of my profession, and wish to thank them each for his or her management and belief, which have formed each my journey and the tradition of BCS,” stated Coward.
“As BCS turns into an more and more world enterprise, my major focus is to make sure we now have the precise operational construction, expertise and assist in place to ship persistently for our shoppers, whereas staying true to the ethos that makes BCS completely different – a people-first, human-led enterprise, backed by deep, technical, knowledge centre experience.”
BCS stated Coward has additionally been concerned in its individuals and expertise technique, together with the creation of an apprenticeship programme, as the broader knowledge centre sector continues to warn of expertise shortages and recruitment pressures.
The corporate added that Coward’s remit will embody accelerating digital adoption throughout the organisation and making certain consistency of supply because it grows throughout areas, whereas sustaining what it described as a “human-led, customer-first method”.
