Why Apply?
The Agile Business Awards aim to shine a light on the good practices that are changing the world of work – across the whole spectrum of business agility.
By applying, you will receive:
- Feedback report from an independent panel of expert reviewers
- A chance to tell your story at the Agile Business Conference
- Receive recognition and acknowledgement as an outstanding organisation
- Be part of a new style of Conference that’s changing the way we work
Are you thinking of applying or working on your application? Let us know to stay in the loop.
What's needed for the application? Please refer to Award Application Guidance PDF and the Award Application Word Template.
Entry Categories
If you would like others to know how you’ve been changing the way you work in your organisation, you can apply for a prestigious Agile Business Award. It’s a rigorous process, but the gains are great!
Choose 1 of 4 entry categories:
- Agility in Marketing
- Agility in HR
- Agility in Finance, Procurement & Contracts
- Overall Business Agility
Would you like to encourage another organisation to enter? You can nominate here.
17th & 18th April 2024 - Agile Business Conference. 
Application Support
For support with your application, please refer to the Award Application Guidance PDF and the Award Application Word Template.
Successful applicants are invited to speak at the Agile Business Conference.
The deadline date for applications to be submitted is December 4, 2023.
Curious to know more?
In these LIVE sessions, we’ll answer your queries and explain how our awards application process helps you to tell your organisation’s story.
- 13 November - How to be a part of the action!
Watch the September session here.
Nominate an Organisation
Would you like to nominate an organisation and encourage them to enter? Please include their full contact details in the form below. We’ll ping them an email and let them know you’ve nominated them.
Applicant FAQs
Successful organisations receive:
- Feedback report from an independent panel of expert reviewers
- A chance to tell your story at the Agile Business Conference
- Receive 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.
The deadline for awards applications is 4th December 2023.
Successful organisations will be contacted the week commencing 29th January 2024 and invited to speak at the Agile Business Conference 17-18th April 2024.
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, 4th December 2023.
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 marketing to agile principles and practices
- Organisations including marketing in a wider agile transformation
- Organisations applying agility only within marketing
- Membership of, or affiliation with, the Agile Business Consortium is not required
- Organisations also entering other categories of these awards
- Organisations may nominate themselves to enter
- Organisations sponsoring an award 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 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: