Register your interest for 2024 Agile Business Awards Conference
Register your interest to receive early updates and date releases.
Successful organisations receive:
- Detailed feedback report from an independent panel of expert reviewers
- A chance to tell your story at the Agile Business Conference
- Recognition and acknowledgement as an outstanding organisation
- Be part of a new style of Conference that’s changing the way we work
This is a great opportunity to receive public recognition and publicity around your achievements and to present at the Agile Business Conference. A badge, certificate and kudos will be awarded along with the recognition. There is no cash prize.
From past years, we know that for most organisations, application will take between 2-6 weeks to gather information, to gather evidence, to involve people, and to gain internal approval to apply.
As a consultant, you can absolutely support your clients to enter an award. Should they win and be selected to present their talk at the Agile Business Conference you will not be able to co-present the talk. However, you will have a referenceable case study that will be hosted on the Agile Business Consortium's website where you'll be able to link to and mention your involvement in the work.
Winning case study presentations are hosted on the Agile Business Consortium's website. Unfortunately, you are not able to download this, but you can place a link on your site and link to the Consortium's website.
The deadline for awards applications is 25th November 2024.
Successful organisations will be contacted the week commencing 3rd February 2025 and invited to speak at the Agile Business Conference 26th & 27th March 2025.
The Agile Business Conference will be delivered live. Recorded sessions will be used as needed to account for the variance in time zones.
All our Award Winners are invited to speak at the Agile Business Conference, and we will record those talks and add them to the Agile Business Consortium website. These videos will be available to anyone visiting our website. We may also use the content of your talk, appropriately attributed, within other resources and case studies published by the Consortium.
Successful organisations will be recognised for excellence in the category for which they have applied. There are currently no categories exclusively dedicated to individual excellence, although this can be covered in an organisation’s entry.
The review panel’s assessment will be based on the Framework for Business Agility. The application therefore has to:
- Describe what has been achieved in the areas of the Framework for Business Agility
- Provide evidence (including screen-grabs, verbatim quotes, pictures) which can be uploaded to support the story
There are four awards categories this year:
- Agility in Finance, Procurement & Contracts
- Agility in HR
- Agility in Marketing
- Overall Business Agility
The Agile Business Consortium reserves the right to move applications to a different category.
We aim to select 12 winners; outstanding organisations that provide examples of excellence across all the categories.
Every entry will be reviewed by three independent reviewers. Each reviewer will be given a list of applicant names, before submissions are sent to them, to ensure there is no conflict of interest.
Yes, these awards are designed to shine a light on great practices within functional divisions as well as across a whole enterprise.
The overall list of reviewers will be made public after all submissions have been received, 25th November 2024.
Just know they are knowledge experts in that field, and you will want to impress them!
No, not on this occasion! We want to stay as inclusive as possible and choosing a location will exclude many. Virtually, we can reach you all, and without the stress of travelling!
If you would like to opt into a physical meet, please let us know and we can consider this for alternative events and opportunities.
Award entries will be assessed by an independent panel of experts within the broad perspective of the Framework for Business Agility.
Who can enter or nominate:
- Organisations intentionally aligning their agile principles and practices to one of the awards categories
- Organisations including one of the categories in a wider agile transformation
- Organisations applying agility only within one of the awards categories
- Membership of, or affiliation with, the Agile Business Consortium is not required
- Organisations may enter multiple categories of these awards
- Organisations may nominate themselves to enter
- Organisations supporting an awards category may nominate other organisations for that category
Who cannot enter:
- Organisations sponsoring an award category
- Third parties representing an organisation
- Organisations or divisions that have applied successfully for the same category within the past 3 years
- Consultancies and those providing services related to agile working
We’d like to emphasise this isn’t a competition, it’s an opportunity to congratulate one another on how far we’ve come. We are unable to share direct information about others who have applied. Should you wish to apply, you can be sure of high level of privacy around the details you will share.
Yes, you can find more information about each of the 4 entry categories:
We are looking for evidence of what has been actioned in your organisation to improve agility, rather than your English language skills. So there’s no need to use AI or other models. Applications will be assessed purely on content and authenticity. Reviewers will not be evaluating your use of English, or grammar, so please do not be tempted to use ChatGpt or other Artificial Intelligence (AI) or machine learning models to create your application. Applications will be screened for use AI and machine learning models. Any applications that appear to have been generated in this way will be returned.
FAQ for Reviewers and Sponsors
Be part of the action at the Agile Business Conference when your organisation sponsors an award category. This is a great opportunity to align your brand with excellence in a specific area. We’re looking for organisations whose values are aligned with the awards category they’re sponsoring. Your support will help to advance business agility worldwide, by highlighting excellence across business agility.
We are offering sponsorship on a ‘payment in kind’ basis. We are asking for your commitment to get involved and support these Awards and the Conference that results, so we can advance business agility worldwide.
We will showcase your logo, your organisation’s profile, and your bios. There will be opportunities for you to get involved in interviews, blogs and more.
As a not-for-profit professional body, our aim is to advance business agility worldwide. For this reason, sponsorship is not about paying money, but is a commitment to get involved and support. We are looking for our sponsors to make a positive contribution to the creation of a successful awards process and an Agile Business Conference that celebrates the achievement of the organisations selected.
We are asking sponsors to support the awards in the following ways: (Please select 3 or more when applying)
- Write/contribute a thought leader blog
- Take part in an Interview/Podcast
- Provide a 1 minute/30sec video clip on why these awards are important for advancing business agility worldwide
- Support social posts for the hashtag #agilebusinessawards
- Create your own social posts in support of the awards and the conference
- Encourage your network to attend the Agile Business Conference
- Offer to host sessions at the Conference (hosts will be selected according to experience and availability of spaces. There is no guarantee all sponsors will host sessions.)
What details do sponsors need to provide?
- Organisation name
- 50 word organisation description
- Main contact name and email
- Web URL
- Social tags & handles
- Your logo will appear on the landing page for the award category you’re sponsoring
- You will have a 50 word company profile on our website as an awards sponsor
- You will be mentioned in social media as a sponsor
- You will have the opportunity to take part as a session host in the Agile Business Conference itself (should you wish to do so)
Register your interest and we’ll be sure to send you updates.
Due to the potential conflict of interest, you would not be able to sponsor an award you have applied for.
You can raise your professional profile with the reignition of making a positive contribution to advancing business agility. You will have loads of learnings on offer both from the entries themselves and the discussions with other on the reviewing panel. You may have the opportunity to host sessions during the live event should you wish too.
As the professional body for business agility, we know it’s not all about qualifications! As a reviewer, it’s important you have strong experience in the category you’re looking to review and a deep understanding of agile and business agility.
No due to conflict of interest, you are unable to apply and review.
Before receiving applications for review, you will be sent a list of applicant organisation names. This is so that no reviewer will evaluate entries from organisations with whom they have a relationship or potential conflict. Please let us know if this applies once you have received that list.
Register your interest and we’ll be sure to send you updates when dates are finalised!
You will find out whether you were a successful reviewer sometime in November when we have finalised the review panel. Please note, if you are not successful there will be other ways you can contribute to our awards conference.
Currently we don’t have any dates finalised, however; this year, the reviewers were sent their applications at the beginning of January, and had 3 weeks to review them; if you commit, please bare this time scale in mind.
It will depend on the number of applications we receive and the number of reviewers we have on the review panel, I am afraid we cannot be specific at this time.
Be part of the action during the Agile Business Awards process and at the Agile Business Conference when your organisation supports an award category. This is a great opportunity to align your brand with excellence in a specific area. We’re looking for organisations whose values are aligned with the awards category they’re supporting. Your support will help to advance business agility worldwide, by highlighting excellence across business agility.
We are accepting supporting organisations on a ‘payment in kind’ basis. We are asking for your commitment to get involved and support these Awards and the Conference that results, so we can advance business agility worldwide.
We will showcase your logo, your organisation’s profile, and your bios. There will be opportunities for you to get involved in interviews, blogs and more.
Network with the other supporters and be part of the Business Agility Awards and Conference community, join the regular check-in calls, and access early insights
As a not-for-profit professional body, our aim is to advance business agility worldwide. For this reason, supporting is not about paying money, but is a commitment to get involved and support. We are looking for our supporters to make a positive contribution to the creation of a successful awards process and an Agile Business Conference that celebrates the achievement of the organisations selected.
We are asking supporters to support the awards, not only by attending the conference but in the following ways: (Please select 3 or more when applying)
- Encourage your network to attend the Agile Business Conference
- Support social posts for the hashtag #agilebusinessawards
- Create your own social posts in support of the awards and the conference
- Write/contribute a thought leader blog
- Take part in an Interview/Podcast
- Provide a 1 minute/30sec video clip on why these awards are important for advancing business agility worldwide
- Become a reviewer
- Offer to host sessions at the Conference (hosts will be selected according to experience and availability of spaces. There is no guarantee all supporters will host sessions.)
What details do supporters need to provide?
- Organisation name
- 50 word organisation description
- Main contact name and email
- Web URL
- Social tags & handles
- Your logo will appear on the landing page for the award category you’re supporting
- You will have a 50 word company profile on our website as an awards supporter
- You will be mentioned in social media as a supporter
- You may have the opportunity to take part as a session host in the Agile Business Conference itself (should you wish to do so)
Register your interest and we’ll be sure to send you updates.
Due to the potential conflict of interest, you would not be able to support an award you have applied for.