In December last year Cogent Chairman Dr John Beacham was interviewed by the Telegraph’s Martin Baker.

The interview centred around John Beacham’s role with Cogent and his views on working with the public sector and government. Said John, “pretty well everything from the business world is portable – particularly the skills of managing projects, vision and strategy.”

He said that the Cogent role excites him, “upskilling is a key strategy – nearly 50 per cent of the workforce in these sectors will need to be upskilled to compete in the future. The SSCs sit between the providers and the users – business.”

He also took the opportunity to reiterate his view that high quality leadership is key, ” it’s not easy to create the vision, the drive, the will to empower employees and then to mentor them…we need a lot more of that in the public sector.”