Business Strategy & Operations

Validate Strategic Vision and Execution Excellence

Whether it’s through an M&A deal or a global change programme, entering is a powerful way to show how your strategic leadership reshaped your organisation and delivered lasting value.

Build Market Authority and Influence

Get recognised as a transformation architect. Entering offers you a chance to build your personal and organisational reputation as a trusted leader capable of navigating complexity and creating long-term value.

Most Transformational M&A Deal

This award recognizes M&A activity that delivers lasting, positive change - not just financial gain. It celebrates deals that transform businesses by enhancing efficiency, culture, operations, or customer experience.

Entrants should explain the rationale behind the deal (acquisition, merger, takeover, or disposal), and how they ensured long-term value creation.

Judges will look for evidence of thoughtful integration across financial, operational, cultural, and customer-facing dimensions.

Best Advisor

This category honours the vital role of high-quality advice in successful organisational transformation. Open to consultancies or sole advisors across any business discipline – such as operations, marketing, tech, people, data, or change – all entries must include written support from any clients mentioned in detail.

Entrants should clearly describe their role, the support provided, their guiding philosophy, and the impact on the client(s). Submissions may focus on a single client or multiple organisations.

Best Global Transformation

Entries are welcomed in this category from organisations which are headquartered outside the UK and do not have significant UK operations.

Entrants should explain the rationale for their transformation, the changes made (e.g., tech, culture, function, brand), and provide clear evidence of how it has advanced their mission and key performance indicators over time.

Best Customer-Focused Transformation

This award celebrates organisations that turned customer insight into real change. Entrants should show how feedback shaped decisions, what was changed, and the lasting impact.

Judges are looking for a strong customer-first culture and clear evidence that listening to the market led to long-term transformation.

Best SME Transformation

Open to organisations with 250 or fewer employees worldwide.

Entries should explain the reason for the transformation, how it was delivered (e.g. tech, culture, function, or brand), and show a clear impact on the organisation’s mission and performance over time.