The Stationers’ Company invites applications for the Innovation Excellence Awards ahead of the 21 April 2023 deadline
From BETT in London to the Visual Media conference in Leeds, the focus is firmly on innovation across the country this spring.
With cost-of-living, inflation, and other import/export pressures, UK businesses are again in the eye of the storm: not perhaps as acutely as during the pandemic but with an increasing need to provide value for money, great products and customer service as consumers juggle online and in-person choices.
Authentic voices are increasingly sought to reassure consumers through genuine stories, such as those heard at Visual Media Leeds featuring Tony’s Chocolonely, and Lexus, showcasing excellence in marketing and communications supported by effective business processes, now a key component within the overall customer experience.
Development and change across one or more of these aspects of business is essential to innovation, and to ensure companies survive. Increasingly, innovation is coupled with sustainability and inclusion demanded by discerning value driven customers in all markets.
The Stationer’s Company actively supports such developments through the Innovation Excellence Awards and encourages applicants from the £70bn communications and content industries - including global companies, SMEs, non-profits, and start-ups.
The Award categories are: Business Process; Communications and Marketing; Customer Experience; Product Design; Service Development, with a separate category for Start-ups. Now in their 9th year, the Awards are free to enter, and entrants do not have to be members of the Stationers’ Company – they are open to all. Entries can be made in more than one category, and an overall ‘Innovator of the Year’ is selected from the winners of each category.
Entries close at 7pm on Friday 21 April. Click https://www.stationers.org/siea-entry
Judges are keen to see applications that focus on novel products, services or business processes that have a positive financial and/or social impact on customers and on the environment. Judging criteria are also available on the site.
Overall winners of the last three years’ ‘Innovator of the Year’ Award were Xerox in 2022 for the Xerox ElemX printer; ‘Turn on the Subtitles’ global marketing campaign of the same name in 2021; and Heidelberg for Heidelberg Assistant in 2019 (2020 Awards cancelled due to the pandemic). See our full 2022 awards day brochure at https://www.stationers.org/assets/Version-2-Big-Brochure-2022-FINAL-pdf_fa83.pdf
The 2023 Awards will be announced and presented in the historic Stationers’ Hall on Monday, 25 September 2023 at the awards lunch.
For further information please contact Gabby Price at [email protected]