Celebrating the 20 finalists from this year’s Innovation & Transformation awards. Trailblazers who are redefining workforce planning, customer experience, and operational excellence. From AI to culture change, these organisations are proving that bold thinking drives real-world results.

The Innovation of the Year 2018 award was won by Homeserve; an organisation centred on people and customers. In achieving commercial success and building community engagement, front-line teams re-connected with the organisation’s purpose, to rebuild trust. Marked out by judges as one of the best entries they’ve ever seen, this is a story everyone can learn from and be inspired by. They were also presented with the Innovation Award for Social Transformation.

In an extremely volatile and sensitive working environment, see how a team was able to introduce a long-term forecasting and capacity planning process to improve performance and tactical planning.  Working in collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure that all activities were in the capacity plan, including training and recruitment, this have meant trust in the plan and focus on the long-term.

Building on their award-winning real-time model the Capability Transformation and Planning teams worked together to conceive and develop 3Cal, a tool that the whole business can use to plan activity with customer or colleague impact, so that it is visible and built into the forecast and plan.