DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Data and analytics leader of the year: Ming Tang, NHS England
Under her leadership, the NHS Covid-19 data store was built for NHS England, NHS Improvement and NHSX, bringing together multiple data sources into a single, secure location using the Palantir data integration platform Foundry. Aggregated data is cleansed, harmonised and used as the single source for analytics, ensuring data-led decisions have been effective. In normal […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Data champion: Di Mayze, WPP
Key elements of this include launching an open data and AI community within WPP which now has over 3,000 members. In parallel, she launched an AI Academy which is intending to up-skill 5,000 data practitioners across the group. She also invited 100 of the most senior data and AI leaders into a chief data officer […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Data enabling solution of the year (Data Titans): Barclays UK
To qualify, applicants needed a business account with the lender, meaning new customers faced a longer journey, especially smaller businesses which regularly operate from a personal account. The majority of lenders to this sector had also prevented further personal borrowing, meaning that SMEs were forced to apply for BBL via approved banks in order to […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Data enabling solution of the year (Data Enablers): WhenFresh
WhenFresh has been working in property data since 2012 with key data partners, including Zoopla Property Group and Land Registry. By applying data science techniques, it had developed a range of residential property-based data solutions, initially focused on home movers for clients offering mortgages, insurance, home moving services, utility switching and the like. These solutions […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Data for good champion: Alex Hutchison, director of the Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF
Key to the Collaborative’s success is its director, Alex Hutchison, who serves as a tireless advocate for the responsible use of data to improve the lives of children. Doing so requires the skill to navigate the complex relationship between the Collaborative’s key stakeholders to challenge, initiate and drive ideas that resonate across organisational boundaries. Hutchison’s […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Becoming Data Literate award: JLL
Fiona Gordon, BI strategy director, and Simon Beaumont, global centre of excellence director, set out the 20/20 vision using five pillars: a plan on a page oriented to vision, ambition, cause, values, strategic objectives, and key priorities; change management; design thinking; continuous learning; uniting the community. Change management was recognised as essential to ensure buy-in […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Data for health and wellbeing: IAG Loyalty
Development of the platform began after an internal study revealed that 67% of IAG Loyalty employees felt less connected to each other, 46% were exercising less and 37% experienced sleep issues after the first lockdown. It was built within four months to address the mental and physical challenges highlighted by the survey, leveraging much of […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Best data and AI ethics initiative: Barclays UK
At the end of 2019, the data and analytics team (DNA) identified the need to apply an ethical filter to its data use, ensuring it was transparent, consistent in its decision-making and therefore able to build trust with customers. A reusable data ethics framework was identified as desirable – a customised version of the ODI’s […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Data for society: Public Health England, NHS England and NHS Improvement
An early hurdle for the team behind the dashboard was pooling the disparate sources of data collected by the various strands of England’s health and care system. In March 2020, NHS England and NHS Improvement partnered with NHSX to integrate this data into a single, secure location – the NHS Covid-19 data store. An integration […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Best data and analytics team (Data Titans): Specsavers global data team
One proof of that was when clinical teams identified that two-thirds of referrals for glaucoma were missed during the first lockdown. That data was shared with the NHS and Glaucoma UK, becoming part of the evidence base for allowing optometrists to remain open and thereby helping to prevent avoidable blindness. There is a strong, caring […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Global data and analytics leader of the year: Wade Munsie, GSK Consumer Healthcare
The lockdown meant a fully virtual working environment, but the year saw over 100 data and analytics practitioners built into a team within months. Leadership has been central to this – Munsie has built an open, empowered, collaborative and fun culture which has seen CSAT scores of 4.8 out of 5 from a 100% response […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Best data and analytics team (Data Enablers): Newton Digital
The company has a data-led methodology that focuses on solving its clients’ biggest problems using digital capabilities. Across the public sector, defence, retail and food manufacturing, it has been able to identify cost-saving solutions worth over £550 million. With a contingency fee model, revenue is only created once promised value is delivered. Projects delivered over […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Grand Prix: Emirates Team New Zealand, McKinsey & Company and QuantumBlack
So in 2019, the team partnered with McKinsey and its artificial intelligence arm QuantumBlack to develop an AI bot which would be able to “sail” thousands of potential boat designs with potential new hydrofoil designs. A key element of this project was the need to train the boat to sail like an Olympic-level athlete and […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Best data literacy or data development programme: WPP
The team partnered with e-learning provider Coursera to take its AI academy online. Participants work through curated learning paths and are encouraged to take part in community feedback sessions. By prompting participants to share their progress on LinkedIn, WPP has created an atmosphere of healthy competition to fuel the desire for learning. With live shoots […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Green data: GSK Consumer Healthcare
Despite her determination, Doig knew she needed help before she could set about achieving these aims. Understanding energy consumption at the plant was constrained by delays in accessing information – gas and electricity bills typically arrived six weeks after the end of the month – while extracting raw data into Excel and running analyses would […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Best data story or data visualisation: IKEA and RAPP
RAPP set about creating a bespoke data dashboard, informed by the online search and purchasing behaviour of IKEA customers. Its real-time visual interface provides transparency and allows for proactive communications to be tailored for changing trends in unprecedented times. Insights from the dashboard inform highly relevant, targeted emails based on consumer behaviour. In the first […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Most effective stakeholder engagement: Superdrug Insight
Insights Champions engage in monthly catch-up meetings, during which the data team showcases new ideas, tools and insights. Champions challenge and inform these developments, enabling data practitioners to better market their products to the wider business. By assigning a “buddy” to each business function, the data team can keep abreast of changing business needs and […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Best data-driven process: EDF
EDF has already installed 2 million smart meters and visits over 8,000 homes every week. But some of these visits result in failure which the organisation needs to respond to. Previously, its focus had been on failure prevention rather than failure rectification. Unless it could acknowledge a problem, explain to customers what would happen next […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Most innovative use of AI: Emirates Team New Zealand, McKinsey & Company and QuantumBlack
So in 2019, the team partnered with McKinsey and its artificial intelligence arm QuantumBlack to develop an AI bot which would be able to “sail” thousands of potential boat designs with potential new hydrofoil designs. A key element of this project was the need to train the boat to sail like an Olympic-level athlete and […]
DataIQ Awards 2021 winner – Best place to work in data (Data Titans): GSK Consumer Healthcare data team
To integrate his new team, chief data officer Wade Munsie introduced team bonding activities such as Zoom coffees, Friday socials, and regular walking meetings. A “steps challenge” has seen the team collectively walk over 5,000 miles – 20% of the Earth’s circumference. With a renewed focus on wellness sparked by the pandemic, the GSK Consumer […]