Norfolk Business Awards 2020

We're excited to announce that Developing Experts is a finalist in this year's Norfolk Business Awards 2020 Knowledge Pioneer sponsored by University of East Anglia. Last month the team met with the Judges listed below: 

UEA Prof Laura Bowater and Julie Schofield & Adam Cole, Commercial Data & Insight Director from Archant.

The Knowledge Pioneer award recognises ambitious businesses with a commitment to acquiring and instilling knowledge in their organisation in order to achieve their strategic goals.

Successful applicants place pronounced importance in developing partnerships with other organisations, with a cross-sector approach to their activities in order to find innovative solutions to business challenges. This could include working with research institutions, or in partnership with suppliers, customers, cross-sector organisations or peer networks.

Finalists display an enthusiasm for pioneering collaborative work based on their acquisition and application of knowledge. This could be achieved through innovative solutions to increase productivity, profitability and financial sustainability or by developing novel technological applications or software. The successful organisation could provide a platform bringing together companies to acquire and share knowledge, or could be involved in networks collaborating to accelerate innovation by sharing ideas with different organisations across varying sectors.

This category was judged on the following:

Use of knowledge – 40%

Collaboration/partnership (cross-sector) – 35%

Innovative solutions – 25%