Recognising innovative business excellence – the BCX Digital Innovation Awards [Sponsored]

The world is changing, and the way business is conducted in the digital era is changing with it.

An accelerated increase in technological advancements brought about by the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution has created a competitive environment where businesses across the globe must innovate in order to remain relevant.

As South Africa’s leading ICT provider to medium enterprises and large corporates, BCX strives to gain an understanding of business’ unique challenges and requirements. BCX innovates for how people live, learn, work, and experience the world.

They drive results by helping their clients put their customers at the heart of their business and re-invent customer experience.

BCX Digital Innovation Awards

For this reason, BCX has partnered with the Sunday Times to present the Top 100 Companies Awards Dinner since last year.

As one of the most anticipated events in the South African business calendar, it recognises outstanding individuals and organisations for their contribution to the South African economy.

The awards also provide valuable investment insight especially in the face of major challenges across different industries.

This year also sees a newly launched category in the inaugural BCX Digital Innovation Awards. These honour South African organisations that have taken up the flag to transform their businesses through technological advancements and digital transformation.

The encompassing objective of the awards includes recognising BCX customers for excellence in digital innovation and to enhance the perception of digital transformation and innovation professionalism in the marketplace.

Awards categories

The categories for the awards are built around a two-fold focus on innovation.

Incremental innovation focuses on continually making existing products or services more competitive by focusing on reducing costs and improving or adding supplementary features. It utilises existing technology to increase value to the customer within the existing market through enhancements or simplification.

Disruptive innovation creates a new market for a branch of customers using new technologies and new business models.

The first category, the SME Digital Innovation Award, is for South African small-to-medium enterprises who have been in operation for more than a year, employ more than five people, and generate less than R50-million.

The Corporate Enterprise Digital Innovation Awards category is for South African large enterprises with an existing
employee base of 200 or more.

The judging panel consists of some of the foremost business figures in the country, including the likes of WBS/Telkom Chair in Digital Business, Professor Brian Armstrong, and Executive Consultant for Digital Transformation at BCX, Dr Karen Luyt to name a few.

Entry requirements for nominations at the awards are in the form of submission of a portfolio of evidence for consideration.

The prizes for the winning organisations include an opportunity to partner with BCX, participation in a Digital Transformation and Co-creation programme, two ‘Business-in-a-box packages to the value of R40 000 and media coverage on Business Day TV.

The Digital Innovation Awards evening takes place on 7 November 2019. Entries close on 20 October 2019. To enter online visit www.bcx.co.za/DigitalInnovationAwards