The Technology Business of the Year
Technology continues to transform industries, changing how and where people work, improving the way organisations transact and deliver impact.
The UK tech sector is driving change and innovation across all industries with solutions to enable scale, improve efficiency and increase profitability. It’s helping challengers to compete with market leaders and industry giants to become more agile.
This award recognises technology businesses that have re-written the rules on how to grow and create value, demonstrating the highest levels of innovation, customer engagement and growth and a robust plan to deliver sustained financial success.
Open to any UK-based technology business, judges will look for those that are best demonstrating:
• Strong financial performance and a plan to sustain it
• Organic growth, effective optimisation of capital or acquisition to scale
• Inspirational leadership and effective management
• Innovation in tech products, solutions or services
• Exceptional customer service & engagement
• Engaged and productive employees
• Ethical practice and profit with purpose
SCORING
In this category judges will compare the extent to which each candidate has demonstrated excellence in the following areas:
Employee & Customer Engagement 20%
- How have you attracted, retained, motivated and optimised your team to innovate to help you win or retain clients?
- What talent strategies, workforce models or initiatives have improved employee productivity and commercial performance?
- Provide case study examples and top line data to demonstrate how you have increased your customer base or client value over the last 18 months.
Leadership & Innovation 30%
- What is innovative or disruptive about your technology, business model, or tech product / service? What impact have you had on your industry?
- Provide evidence or case studies to demonstrate how innovation or your innovative approach has driven commercial success.
- Show how the management structure, leadership philosophy and culture of your company have supported growth or improved profitability over of the last year.
Financial Performance & Growth 30%
- Explain your key growth metrics, including financial targets, KPIs, timescales and overall ambitions plus examples of milestones and barriers/challenges that have been overcome. Growth metrics can include tech adoption, subscription, lead generation, client base, headcount, NPS scores, etc.
- How do you benchmark against your peers in terms of sales, profitability or market share?
- How has your company performed against your growth plan and what will help you to sustain future growth?
- Show examples and/or case studies of what has supported, or will drive further, commercial success.
Purpose Beyond Profit 20%
- How does your guiding mission, values or purpose align with your technology, business model, and growth objectives?
- What is your company doing to improve environmental, social or governance impact and how are these initiatives aligned with your overall ambition for the business?
- How has your approach to diversity, equity and inclusion improved employee / client attraction and retention.
