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 2022 winner – Best data academy or skills development programme: NatWest
NatWest operates a data-first mindset and was the first UK bank to launch a data academy. The academy has an integrated approach, refreshing technical and soft skills that incorporate gamification, self-led, classroom and supported learning techniques.
DataIQ Awards 2022 winner – Data-enabling solution of the year: Jaguar Land Rover
Predictive modelling is one of the greatest ways in which businesses can make informed decisions utilising data, which is exactly what Jaguar Land Rover has done with the vehicle simulator. Since launching, the solution has enabled more than £130 million in cash savings for the business.
DataIQ Awards 2022 winner – Best data and analytics team: Jaguar Land Rover
In March 2021, Jaguar Land Rover accelerated its plans for a radical digital transformation, creating digital, a new data-driven team at the heart the company formed from the merger of analytical and automation teams.
DataIQ Awards 2022 winner – Global data and analytics leader of the year: Wade Munsie
Wade Munsie joined GSK Consumer Healthcare (now rebranded as Haleon) at the start of the pandemic in 2020 and immediately set about transforming it into a world-class leader in the use of data. Munsie built a team from scratch, totalling more than 100 members, while delivering millions in economic value to the business. He becomes the first person to win this prestigious award two years in a row.
DataIQ Awards 2022 winner – Best data story or data visualisation: 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic)
The operational support team (OST) at 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic) was created to provide clearer data visualisation on a global scale at a rapid pace which was utilised for major events such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the G7 Summit, COP26 and the Commonwealth Games for data-driven decision-making.
DataIQ Awards 2022 winner – Grand prix: Jaguar Land Rover
Predictive modelling is one of the greatest ways in which businesses can make informed decisions utilising data, which is exactly what Jaguar Land Rover has done with the vehicle simulator. Since launching, the solution has enabled more than £130 million in cash savings for the business.
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.