Steven Alexander Kok
Partner & Associate Director, Technology & Digital Transformation
London
Steven Kok is one of the Topic Leaders for DevOps, Agile@Scale, Blockchain, and Open Banking at Boston Consulting Group. Steven has over ten years of experience in technology and operations strategy in the financial services, energy, and semiconductors businesses.
Steven’s chief interest is in helping clients transform the way they deliver digital transformations; he enables them to use agile ways of working and embrace DevOps practices to quickly and efficiently develop higher-quality software. Steven also supports clients as they shape their strategic ambitions for Blockchain, ensuring they focus on valuable use cases with higher chances of success, as well as helping them deliver scalable propositions.
Within the financial institutions sector, Steven focuses mostly on technology and operations strategy for capital markets and corporate banking, as well as helping financial institutions across their spectrum honing and delivering on their open banking ambitions.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
EDUCATION
- MBA, ESADE Business School
- Executive Management Training Programme, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Electrical Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
Publications and Videos
Taming Nonfinancial Risk in Financial Institutions and Beyond
For financial institutions and other industries, the current crisis has only increased the number and severity of nonfinancial risks (NFRs) in areas such as cybersecurity and ESG. This session will focus on the urgency of NFR management for financial institutions, including a precise view on critical NFRs, clear organizational responsibilities in the “three lines of defense” (3 LoD) model—including central function setup—and a structured steering cycle.
Agile Governance and Funding—How Outcome-Oriented Governance Unleashes Agile at Scale
BCG’s business review approach for agile governance weds strong alignment on outcome-oriented strategies with the high degree of autonomy required for teams to deliver value at speed and at scale. The session will include an outline of the BCG agile-at-scale governance and funding framework as well as real-world client-impact examples.
