2025 SHORTLIST
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Best Use of Technology in Transformation
Danone innovates organisational change with always-on approach to business transformation
Danone S.A.
Danone is a multinational food and beverage company that sells products in 120 countries around the world. After a series of large-scale organisational restructures, the company decided to innovate its business transformation methodology using a continuous organisation design approach.This new approach renders costly, reactive, high-ri...
Law Enforcement Data Service
Home Office and National Police Chiefs' Council
The Law Enforcement Data Service (LEDS) is a modern cloud based, scalable data service which will enable the eventual retirement of the Police National Computer (PNC) and support the further modernisation and evolution of the UK’s Policing and Security Services. LEDS is based upon micro-services architecture enabling responsive develop...
Serendata: Transforming Organisational Change Management
Sysdoc UK
Client: Infor
Background and ChallengeInfor, a global leader in enterprise software, faced an urgent need: to deliver complex digital transformation projects faster, with greater consistency, and across more geographies. Traditional change management approaches were manual, inconsistent, and costly. Infor needed a smarter, more scalable way to deliv...
Setting the gold standard in digital transformation
MMT
Client: CFA
CFA Institute is the global gold standard for investment management professionals, dedicated to advancing ethics, education, and professional excellence in the financial services industry. With over 190,000 members across 160+ countries, CFA empowers individuals and organisations through networking opportunities, career pathways, local...
Transformation of personal loans acquisition journey
Jaywing
A leading high street bank partnered with Jaywing to address systemic inefficiencies in its personal loans acquisition journey, from costly, error-prone affordability assessments to inconsistent customer experiences. Jaywing’s technology-led intervention delivered rapid and lasting transformation through a combination of credit risk ex...
Transforming Care Through Digital Innovation
Lifeways
As Lifeways celebrates 30 years of supporting adults with complex needs, we are focused on becoming both the Provider of Choice and the Employer of Choice by 2026. Guided by our CHOICE values, we help people live fulfilling lives while creating a culture where colleagues feel valued and able to do their best work.Technology has been ce...
Best Use of AI in Transformation
AI-led fraud intervention
Jaywing
In the run-up to a high-profile product launch, this leading telecoms provider faced a sharp spike in fraud risk, both first-party and third-party, that threatened to derail its performance. With just weeks to act, the business partnered with Jaywing to deploy AI-led defences at pace and scale.Jaywing used its proprietary AI modelling ...
Definition AI
Definition
Definition, a leading strategic marketing and communications agency, successfully built and implemented a groundbreaking AI-driven platform, Definition AI, to address internal productivity bottlenecks and meet growing client expectations. Launched in October 2023, this proprietary ecosystem integrates cutting-edge AI models within a se...
Legal-Grade™ AI: Wherever Computer Meets Contrac
Luminance
Luminance is the pioneer in Legal-Grade™ AI. Developed by AI experts from Cambridge University, Luminance’s proprietary AI has been purpose-built for legal specific application, using a mixture of experts approach to automate and augment every touchpoint a business has with its contracts: from taking a first-pass assessment of incoming...
Best People-led Transformation
Growing Business Value Through People-Led Transformation
Stick + Twist
Between July 2023 and January 2025, Stick + Twist underwent a bold people-led transformation to align rapid business growth with a culture that puts people at its core. We set out to re-engineer our culture to support a new operating model, unlock performance and attract top-tier talent.The result? A culture that balances its commercia...
Project Light – Empowering Culture for Sustainable Excellence
ADNOC Offshore
Initiated in 2023, ADNOC Offshore’ s Project Light is a strategic transformation initiative focused on operational excellence, digital integration, sustainability and bringing out cost conscious culture. Driven by people-led innovation, it aligns with ADNOC’s long-term vision and values. Through strong leadership support and cross-func...
Project Manhattan
Nine Feet Tall
A leading UK pharmaceutical distributor partnered with Nine Feet Tall (9FT) to transform its culture, aligning its people with a Five-Year Strategic Plan and at the same time implementing a new warehouse management system (WMS) rollout across 12 sites.Historically focused on operational efficiency, the organisation’s long tenured and d...
Putting People at the Heart of Transformation
Lifeways
Lifeways is the UK’s largest specialist support provider for adults with complex needs, supporting over 4,000 individuals through 9,500 colleagues nationwide.Years of underinvestment had left colleagues disengaged, retention at 60%, agency use at 9.3%, and compliance at 77%. We set out to rebuild trust, put people back at the heart of ...
Reinventing ND PMO – People at the Heart of Transformation
EDF Energy Generation
In 2023, EDF’s Nuclear Decommissioning PMO faced significant people and engagement challenges at a time when clarity and confidence were essential for the UK’s nuclear decommissioning mission.In 2024, under new leadership, the PMO began a people-focused transformation designed to rebuild trust, create stability, and enhance capability....
Transforming Culture, Capability and Commercial Impact through People
Discovery ADR Group
Client: RS Group
Faced with declining margins and a transactional sales culture, RS Group plc partnered with Discovery ADR Group to deliver a people-led transformation of its global sales function. The aim: shift mindset, uplift capability, and embed a sustainable high-performance culture.Over nine years, RS and Discovery have built a behavioural and l...
Transforming Organisational Culture Through People and Purpose
Gallagher Communication
One of the world’s largest grocery retailers, partnered with the Gallagher Communications Practice (Gallagher) to deliver the initiative - a transformative program designed to align its global workforce under a shared Purpose and vision. With over 200,000 employees across 11 markets, they recognised the need for a cultural transformati...
Best Customer-focused Transformation
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Most Sustainable Transformation
Embedding Sustainability into the Heart of a Global Business
Gallagher Communication
One of the world’s largest and most successful grocery retailers, partnered with Gallagher Communications Practice (Gallagher) to deliver the initiative - a transformative program designed to embed sustainability into the core of its global operations. With over 200,000 employees across 11 markets, the client recognised that achieving ...
Transformation Rooted In Nature
Trustgreen
Trustgreen are dedicated to fostering and promoting sustainable practices. Our commitment to Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) and enhancing the environment has positioned us as leaders within the Open Space Management/Stewardship industry and the implementation of Biodiversity Net Gain across new developments.Trustgreen has achieved a landm...
Best Public or Third Sector Transformation
Improving health outcomes in Bradford & Craven
Activate Bradford & Craven District
Activate Bradford District & Craven (ABDC) Partnership has developed a new product that leads a transformative shift in how the need for support to voluntary sector organisations is identified and prioritised. Faced with rising demand and constrained funding, the sector required a smarter, more targeted approach to sustaining essential...
Next Level Leadership
CIPD
Client: Ministry of Justice
The Ministry of Justice People Function faced a pressing challenge: to empower senior leaders to deliver its ambitious People Vision—Brilliant Basics, Professional Service, and Collaborative Culture. Partnering with with CIPD, a radical new approach to leadership development was adopted: Next Level Leadership.Too often, leadership deve...
Pioneering the Future of Transport
MMT
Client: Translink
Across Europe, transport providers have traditionally relied on fragmented third-party systems that limit operational flexibility, reduce customer data visibility, and deliver passenger experiences that are full of friction and complexity – discouraging customers from using public transport.Customers face systemic barriers to public tr...
Re-design of service delivery models to adequately support victims/survivors of sexual violence
Gate One
Client: Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC)
The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) is responsible for supporting victims of crime and specifically commissions support services for victims/survivors of sexual violence. However, these services faced significant strain with long waiting lists for emotional and practical support. This galvanized MOPAC to collaborate with ...
Best Brand Transformation
A next step forward
Wolff Olins
Client: Lloyds Banking Group
We’ve been Britain’s bank for nearly 260 years. But our long-standing purpose, to help Britain prosper, needed to feel relevant to today. So we reimagined what that purpose truly means in people’s lives. At the heart of it, a new brand positioning, Lloyds moves everyone forward. Because we’ve learned that while most people have a step ...
Transforming Vacherin from corporate caterer into relationship booster
The Clearing
Client: Vacherin
Our rebrand for Vacherin, London’s boutique corporate hospitality partner, wasn’t about plating it up nicely. It was a strategic repositioning to secure its future in a world where workplace dining expectations have changed forever.The pandemic shifted how companies think about food — from something functional to something cultural. Ho...
Vroom Brand Transformation
Luna 9
Client: VROOM Digital
Vroom is a high-performing digital marketing agency with global ambitions, but their brand had not kept up. It no longer reflected their quality, personality or potential. In competitive pitch environments, it wasn’t telling the right story or opening the right doors.Working closely with Luna 9, Vroom undertook a full strategic rebrand...
Best SME Transformation
FMG International Growth
Frontier Medical Group
Frontier Medical Group undertook a strategic transformation to streamline and standardise its international distributor onboarding process. This initiative was designed to address inefficiencies, reduce delays, and improve compliance across global market entries. By aligning cross-functional teams under a unified framework, the project...
From Start-up to Scale-up. How Stick + Twist Supercharged Value Through Business and People Transformation
Stick + Twist
Between July 2023 and January 2025, Stick + Twist underwent a bold business and people-led transformation to align rapid business growth with a culture that puts people at its core. We set out to re-engineer our culture to support a new operating model, unlock performance and attract top-tier talent.The result? A culture that balances ...
Best Global Transformation
Finance Academy
6 Group
Client: Outokumpu
Outokumpu, a global stainless steel manufacturer, faced a significant challenge with €1.2 billion in debt and a finance function that was fragmented and transactional. The company's CFO aimed to transform the finance team into a unified, strategic business partner. To achieve this, 6 Group collaborated with the CFO and the Learning & D...
Moeve: A 'Moeve' that Matters
Landor
Client: Moeve
When Spain’s national oil provider CEPSA set out to become a clean energy leader, they didn’t just change direction or identity – they changed the category. Under the new vision of CEO Maarten Wetselaar, the company launched a sweeping strategy to exit fossil fuels and lead the green molecule revolution.But to make this shift real, the...
Uniting a global workforce through purpose during transformation
Gallagher Communication
A leading global grocery chain, embarked on the transformative initiative to address significant challenges, including IT transformation, organisational restructuring, and rising costs that threatened its competitive advantage. The initiative aimed to globalise operations, align employees with their new Purpose, values, and principles,...
Best Advisor
Cultivating change: How Purpose is transforming Interflora
Given (Part of Anthesis)
Client: Interflora
For over 100 years, Interflora has brought people together through flowers, connecting local artisan florists with those who want to send beautiful bouquets.Facing new competition, Interflora needed to transform. A refreshed purpose, "to make beautiful things happen," would be the north star of this revival and it needed to be understo...
Project Reset
Egremont Group
As advisors to Holland and Barrett, the UK’s leading wellness retailer, Egremont Group designed and supported a people-led transformation to turnaround the much-loved business, delivering double-digit growth for two consecutive years.In February 2023, Holland & Barrett was coping – but not thriving. After a turbulent few years, includi...
Sales Transformation at Scale: RS Group’s Journey to Strategic Selling Excellence
Discovery ADR Group
Client: RS Group
Discovery ADR Group and RS Group plc have worked in strategic partnership for nine years to transform RS’s global commercial sales function. The goal: shift from a transactional, price-led sales approach to a consultative, customer-centric, value-led model. Faced with declining revenues and margins, RS required urgent, systemic change,...
Transforming Data into Action with the Value Optimiser Partnership
Elixirr
Client: Thatcham Research
Elixirr and Thatcham Research have joined forces to launch the Value Optimiser initiative - a strategic, data-driven approach designed to unlock the full potential of Thatcham’s automotive risk intelligence. Thatcham Research, the UK’s sole not-for-profit, insurer-funded automotive research centre, provides critical insights into vehic...
Unlocking Higher Margin Self-Pay Revenue Through an Innovation Approach to Distribution
Curzon Consulting
Client: Nuffield Health
To help address rising NHS wait times and growing demand for private healthcare, Curzon Consulting partnered with Nuffield Health to design a transformative self-pay strategy—unlocking new growth opportunities while improving patient access and reducing pressure on public services. Curzon’s innovative approach began with a strategic ma...
