DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Data and analytics leader of the year: Helen Mannion
Helen Mannion leads Specsavers’ data transformation programme and has been instrumental in providing assistance to more than 38 million customers across 11 countries to receive the sight and hearing care they require.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Persuading with data: JLR
Data was needed to persuade business decision makers to take new courses of action and investigate new avenues of business, which is exactly what the data team at JLR achieved with their Recommended Order Bank (ROB) system.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Becoming data literate: JLR
After a successful period of focus on data awareness, visualisation and analysis, the JLR team is pivoting to data literacy to unlock data value for all teams which encompasses good data behaviours and ways of working from data collection and storage, through to management and quality and analytics, AI, BI and value realisation.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Data champion: Susan Walsh
Susan Walsh, founder and managing director, The Classification Guru, is an industry thought leader, author, TEDx speaker and creator of different data courses.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – The Professor Derek Holder lifetime achievement award: Orlando Machado
Orlando Machado has been instrumental in improving the status of data and driving the need for data-led decisions in business.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Best data academy or skills development programme (Client-side): Marks & Spencer
The Marks & Spencer BEAM Academy was launched in response to the responsibility of all data education balancing on one data analyst apprenticeship. Since its inception, BEAM has evolved into a strategic learning proposition for the organisation which has reached all areas of the business.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Data for good champion: Fraser Macdonald
In his role as deputy director at the Data for Children Collaborative, Fraser Macdonald is central to the creation of diverse cross-sector transdisciplinary teams to build meaningful agile projects that source answers to child-focused challenges.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Transformation with data: Lebara
In the space of just two years, Lebara has transformed its business strategy by utilising data. By shifting from prioritising offline volumes to online, digital-first data driven customer relationships the Lebara team delivered five times as much data in a 12-month period, increased the customer base by 44%, reduced churn by 15% and has increased the active online customer audience.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Best data academy or skills development programme (Vendor-side): Rockborne
In just two years Rockborne has taken the data industry by storm with its ability to identify and upskill the next generation of data talent. Formed in response to the data industry’s dire need for more talent and improved skills, Rockborne developed a unique training approach to provide a new level of skills that can be applied in diverse ways in real-world business examples.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Data for health and wellbeing: Specsavers
Specsavers’ industry-recognised clinical outcomes report allows clinicians to see the outcomes of all their patients and review them as part of reflective practice.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Best data and analytics team (Client-side): Burberry
The data and analytics team at Burberry consistently scores highest in team happiness, hits and exceeds long-term company targets, can fill senior roles almost entirely internally and delivers value directly generating £1 million per team member in revenue increases.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Data for society: Trilateral Research, CESIUM
It is a difficult topic to discuss, but the prevention of abuse to children is a lifechanging occurrence that data can impact for the better, which is what the Trilateral Research team have done. Trilateral Research launched CESIUM in March 2023 after five years of developing ethical AI and leveraging research to use data for good.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Best data and analytics team (Vendor-side): Go Inspire
Collaboration is at the core of Go Inspire Group’s data team and this collaboration has led to an exceptional team culture and an unsurpassed understanding of the financial benefits that can be achieved.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Data-enabling solution of the year (Client-side): John Lewis Partnership
Waitrose bakeries – part of the John Lewis Partnership – had the Bakery Optimisation Tool (BOT) developed by the data science team to anticipate customer demand, reduce waste and assist in increasing sales.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Best data graduate employer: Virgin Money
The Virgin Money graduate programme does not just create data professionals, but it sculpts them into data entrepreneurs to challenge the status quo and drive innovations that will evolve the wider industry.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Data-enabling solution of the year (Vendor-side): KNIME
The KNIME Analytics Platform has lowered the barrier for entry with an open-source solution that enables users to build analytics of varying complexity in a no-code and low-code environment to expediate the value sourced from data.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Best data outreach programme: Zurich Insurance
Zurich Insurance’s outreach programmes come in many forms to connect with different communities internally and externally and achieve a multitude of objectives to drive increased understanding, use of and passion for all things data.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Environmental, social and governance (ESG) data: Transform UK
Helping the UK achieve carbon net zero by creating a net zero systems tool
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Best data story or data visualisation: Operational Support Team, 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic)
The Operation Support Team (OST) from 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic) demonstrated the diverse needs of data in times of national need by navigating events such as evacuations from Sudan, the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, earthquakes in Turkey and the Eurovision Song Contest.
DataIQ Awards 2023 winner – Global data and analytics leader of the year: Sandra Stanley
With more than 20 years’ experience in data, Sandra Stanley has taken the role of chief data science officer and used her position to create an inclusive, welcoming and ambitious data team with a strong culture and plenty of ambition.