John Beckford

John Beckford is a consultant and is Visiting Professor in the Department of Civil Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College London and in the Centre for Information Management at Loughborough University. John is a Non-Executive Director of Fusion21 Limited and CoreHaus Ltd, Non-Executive Chair of Rise Mutual CIC and President of the Cybernetics Society. He holds a PhD in Management Systems and Sciences from The University of Hull, is a Fellow of the Cybernetics Society, a Member of The Institute of Management Services, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.

In addition to 'Quality' (Routledge, 4th Edition, 2017) he is author of 'The Intelligent Organisation, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2020) 'The Intelligent Nation' (Routledge 2021) and over 60 other papers and articles. He has undertaken substantial research projects considering the resilience and viability of the UK National Infrastructure on behalf of both government departments and infrastructure owners drawing on his expertise in applied systems thinking.

John has driven substantial innovation, change and research projects internationally with a wide variety of organisations in government, private and public sectors. His experience extends to national and local government, infrastructure systems, social housing, paper making, railways and ferries, banking, financial services, logistics, food production, steel production, chemicals, pharmaceutical research, property management, retail motor distribution, law, healthcare, and tertiary education.

John's passion is for increasing the viability and effectiveness of the individuals and organisations with which he works. This passion is realised through the development of the theory of managerial cybernetics and application of management science and managerial cybernetics to the structures, processes, information systems and leadership behaviours of his clients.

An excellent communicator, John is analytically rigorous and challenging.

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