Marks and Spencer joins FutureDotNow digital skills coalition
M&S has joined FutureDotNow, a coalition of organisations focused on boosting the UK’s workplace essential digital skills.
There are currently 133 members, including Accenture, Asda, BT, Good Things Foundation, Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide Building Society, Nominet, and PwC.
“Building the digital and data analytics capabilities of our colleagues is key to our digital transformation,” says Suze Howse, Head of Enterprise Data at M&S.
“We’ve already made some great progress with the launch of our BEAM learning academy and continued investment in data education programmes.”
“Fostering a digitally-enabled culture is crucial to the success of M&S and the wider retail industry, which is why we’re proud to join the FutureDotNow coalition, to share insights that will help others and learn from some of the other fantastic organisations in the coalition.”
Liz Williams, FutureDotNow’s Chief Executive, says: “It’s great news that M&S, one of the biggest names in retailing, has joined the coalition to help digitally upskill the UK’s workforces.”
“Many organisations can learn from M&S and the way it has gone about training its people.”
“We are building a coalition that is not only making clear there is a job to be done digitally upskilling the nation, its members are helping each other do this.”
