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 2022 winner – Best data-driven process: NHS Supply Chain
CUPID is a tool designed to manage the £1.5 billion spend on high-end devices for the NHS; this complex part of the NHS accounts for nearly one-third of the total NHS supply chain cost.
DataIQ Awards 2022 winner – Most effective stakeholder engagement: The Very Group
The data professionals and business leaders at The Very Group set out to revolutionise retail demand forecasting while ensuring the highest-quality stakeholder management. Over the course of 13 weeks, the team honed-in on trust, impact and communication to accelerate data transformation for more than 100 buyers.
DataIQ Awards 2022 winner – Best diversity, equity and inclusion: ITV
With the target of becoming a UK leader in streaming services, ITV has rolled out a diversity acceleration plan that will reflect viewer diversity on- and off-screen while improving diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Re-examining the recruitment process has led to female diversity reaching 52% and BAME reaching 33% across all levels.
DataIQ Awards 2022 winner – Most innovative use of AI: Intelligent Growth Solutions and Forth Point
Intelligent Growth Solutions and Forth Point have focused on the automation of vertical farming as it is undoubtedly a partial solution to the issue of sustainable agriculture.
DataIQ Awards 2022 winner – Best place to work in data (Data titan): Admiral Group
Admiral Group’s dedication to collaboration and forward-thinking culture has placed it at the forefront of data workplaces, operating a mantra of “people that like what they do, do it better”. The record-high satisfaction results and strong productivity metrics confirm this mantra to be true and working for Admiral Group.
DataIQ Awards 2022 winner – New talent or data apprentice (Data titan): Hannah Lee, Zurich Insurance
Hannah Lee joined the data team at Zurich Insurance in 2019 after her original team was disbanded and, during a period of upheaval and change, she embraced the up-skilling required, enrolling on a data science degree apprenticeship – she has subsequently been promoted to data scientist.
DataIQ Awards 2022 winner – Best place to work in data (Data enabler): Instinctive BI
Founded by three friends who felt data needed to become more personable, honest, trustworthy and affordable, Instinctive BI (IBI) set out to bring together data heroes operating with a focus on people. A recruitment campaign run by the consultants at IBI identified why people should join the IBI community and the ideals of the directors were mirrored in those joining the team.
DataIQ Awards 2022 winner – New talent or data apprentice (Data enabler): Gabe Musker, Ascent
Gabe Musker has been recognised by Ascent as a highly-capable, commercially-aware data consultant, advising C-level executives and leading customer engagements in the space of just nine months since he started.