1. Cultural Transformation

Design-led cultural transformation acknowledges an organization-wide mindset shift where empathy is at the forefront of all processes. This category features the larger implications of Human-Centered Design that changes the way employees work, collaborate and interact both with each other and with customers.

The winning case will display:

a. Established design thinking mindset fostered through multiple teams

b. Collaboration as a core principal and component of ideation

c. Customer centricity as fundamental to decision making

2. Digital Transformation

Digital transformation involves much more than technology investments and UX upgrades. A digital-first mindset involves the reorganization of people, process, and thinking to develop meaningful digital experiences that interact with the existing product infrastructure and augment the value delivered to customers. This category highlights the movement to stay competitive through digital innovation alongside the pieces required to support and sustain this transformation.

The winning case will display:

a. Innovative digital product creation or service optimization

b. Acknowledgement of internal infrastructure and process advancement 

c. A glimpse of the emerging technology navigation method(s)

3. Brand Transformation

Customers do not interact with or view a brand as a singular touch point but rather an end-to-end ecosystem of experiences. Loyalty is driven through a deep and emotional brand engagement. This category examines the evolving nature of modern brands and how organizations craft the end-to-end brand experience to maximize customer lifetime value.

The winning case will display:

a. Brand experience beyond a singular touch point

b. Creation of a community or ecosystem expanding product or service

c. Measures of customer engagement and loyalty

4. Business Model Transformation

The most successful modern businesses foster an agile culture allowing for iterative business model reinvention to disrupt themselves. This culture of business model innovation requires a shift in the way the business functions at the very core. This category spotlights organizations who have taken a human-centered approach to transform their core business and solidify their sustainability in an ever-evolving ecosystem. 

The winning case will display:

a. Candid reflection and evaluation of current business practices

b. A reinvention of core business process, product, service, and/or value proposition

c. Disruptive thinking and collaboration across multiple stakeholders

5. Research Transformation

Moving from analytical to ethnographic research, balancing the moments of qualitative and quantitative data, and deciphering behavior and machine learning, the research landscape proves more complex than ever before. This category highlights organizations who have created a culture of empathy and understanding through a transformed, holistic and inclusive research approach. 

The winning case will display:

a. Empathy as a core component to the influence of decisions, products, service, and culture

b. Multiple methodologies/tools (i.e. use of data, ethnography, automation, etc.) are used 

c. An intersection of qualitative and quantitative research

6. IBM's Enterprise Design Transformation

The modern enterprise strives to align multi-disciplinary teams around the real needs of their users. Understanding that all of the above categories are very much inter-related, this final award will evaluate the finalists of all categories and select an overall winner that best represents the holistic organizational movement powered by Design Thinking and Doing. 

Successful organizational transformation requires progress across many of the above award categories; excelling at culture change, delivering impactful outcomes for users and employees, and the broad adoption of practices like user design research and design thinking.

The winning case will display:

a.    Design Thinking used beyond a workshop, but as a way of work

b.    Core principles of Design Thinking ingrained through the entire story

c.     Outstanding results tied to the design thinking and doing mindset.

d.    This award recognizes the organization that has made the broadest and deepest progress toward sustainably delivering human-centered outcomes.  

• Entry deadline: Friday, January 17, 2020 at 11:59PM EST
• Please note the entry deadline, this date is final and there will be no extensions provided. The system will automatically prevent entry submission after the deadline.
• Finalists announced: March 20, 2020
• Awards presentation ceremony: April 15, 2020 onsite at Design Thinking

General

• All applications must be submitted through Award Force.
• There is no application fee. This protects the integrity and prestige of the CMP Design & Innovation Awards.
• There is no limit to the number of categories for which you can apply for. However, a separate submission is required per category you apply (i.e. you cannot copy and paste the same case study in multiple categories).
• The CMP team will not release or provide any information associated with previous year’s awards applications.
• All finalists are required to be present at the Design Thinking 2020 conference (April 14-17, 2020 in Austin, TX) to win. The Awards ceremony will take place April 15th.
• You will be required to fill out a summary of your submission if you are a finalist to share publicly.
• If you are a vendor/agency/solution provider and provide a client case study, you must have permission to share the name of said client as this will be shared publicly. Details of case submission outside of the summary will be kept confidential. 

Judging

• The judging panel includes Customer Management Practice Analysts, Design & Innovation Advisory Board Members, and select Industry Influencers. All judges abide by a confidentiality agreement.
• Awards categories are allocated in a way where neither judge bias nor conflicts of interest exist.
• Applicant’s contact information will remain confidential throughout the entire awards process.
• Judging of each application will be based on criteria listed per category and the ability to demonstrate the impact and application of human-centered design.

Support

If you have any questions on the entry process, please contact the organizers by email to info@customermanagementpractice.com