Winners & Testimonials

The Award Ceremony for the 2nd Cycle of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Award and the 10th Cycle of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Award was held under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, to honor the winning companies who demonstrated exceptional performance in Excellence and Innovation.

The Award Ceremony, held on February 26th 2019, was graced by H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, and Chairman & Chief Executive of Emirates Airline & Group, and was attended by dignitaries, government officials and business leaders from the UAE and GCC.

H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, and Chairman & Chief Executive of Emirates Airline & Group presented the MRM Business Innovation Award to the following winning companies:

2nd Cycle Business Innovation Award Outstanding Winner	Country
ENOC Retail	United Arab Emirates

2nd Cycle Business Innovation Award Winning Companies	Country
Al Ansari Exchange	United Arab Emirates
ALEC Engineering and Contracting	United Arab Emirates
Almajdouie Logistics Company	Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
ASGC Construction	United Arab Emirates
Aster Pharmacy Group	United Arab Emirates
DuBox	United Arab Emirates
ENOC Retail	United Arab Emirates
Gulf Petrochemical Industries Co. (GPIC)	Kingdom of Bahrain
Jebel Ali Free Zone	United Arab Emirates
Network International	United Arab Emirates
Samsotech	United Arab Emirates
Sharjah Islamic Bank	United Arab Emirates
Transguard Group	United Arab Emirates

Note: the above companies are presented in alphabetical order.

 

ENOC Retail

We are honoured with our recognition in the second cycle of the Mohammed bin Rashid Business Innovation Award. This recognition is a testament of our efforts to develop innovative solutions and digital technologies that enhance operational efficiency, improve customer experience and optimise consumption of resources.

Since 2017, we’ve taken continuous strides to introduce novel and sustainable ideas; from the launch of the UAE’s first solar powered service station and introducing a compact relocatable fueling station, to deploying smart technologies across our retail network. We take pride in our accomplishments and remain committed to invest in transformative infrastructure that will contribute to our country’s vision to become a competitive knowledge based economy.

H.E Saif Humaid Al Falasi, Group CEO of ENOC

 

Al Ansari Exchange

This award is an indicator that our company Al Ansari Exchange has once again proved that we firmly believe in our core values of being “Innovative” in the market thereby giving the world-class experience to both internal and external stakeholders.

The MRM Business Innovation Award from Dubai Chamber has added an additional feather in our cap and another milestone in the list of achievements of Al Ansari Exchange. Moreover, the award is encouraging us to accelerate and enhance newer methods and technology to ensure we remain the pioneers in the ruthless competitive market.

This award will also help us venture in the endless world of technology and to further enhance our processes and procedures. Furthermore, this award serves as a continuous journey for us to stay competent in different frontiers of business and would help us face global challenges with more confidence. Once again we thank Dubai Chamber for this great opportunity.

 

ALEC Engineering and Contracting

Participating in the MRM Innovation Award has been a valuable learning experience for our organization. Going through the submission helped structure our thoughts while going through the rigorous assessment helped us identify gaps in our approach.

Being challenged and benchmarked with the best practices can only boost our journey towards attaining innovation excellence. We have to thank Dubai leaders for being at the forefront of Innovation and setting high expectation for the public and private sectors.

We are also proud being distinguished winners of 2019, this is a recognition for the work we have done over the years and this can only motivate us to work harder. Innovation is part of our DNA and we must ride on the wave of consistent and innovative development moving forward. It is exciting and fulfilling to be part of this journey.

 

Almajdouie Logistics Company

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Award is a benchmark for business excellence and sets a high standard for organisations across the region to aspire to. The award submission process was incredibly straight-forward and we value the independent, objective assessment from the international team of assessors. Furthermore, the award ceremony was well organised from start to finish, which reflects the professionalism and efficiency of the on-site team as well as the meticulous planning leading up to the event.

Baheej Al Biqawi, CEO, Almajdouie Logistics

 

ASGC Construction

At ASGC, being a responsible UAE business means promoting best practices while also seeking new ways to add value to the marketplace. This kind of innovation is only achieved by sharing knowledge with others, investing in cutting-edge technologies, utilizing resources responsibly, and cultivating the potential of every person within the organization.

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Innovation Award is a unique forum for celebrating this commitment. Also, having competed for the award with companies from all industries, as well as large international organizations, was very fruitful. We believe that innovation, as well as business excellence, are not bound by the frontiers of an industry.

We learn and gain knowledge, ideas and expertise from all industries and not only construction, this is our state of mind. We at ASGC are incredibly proud to have been honored during the 2nd Cycle. Our customers can continue to expect more from ASGC as we raise the bar in project management in the years ahead.
Abdul Aziz Mohamed Bin Shafar, Vice President and Executive Director of ASGC

 

DuBox

DuBox is proud to be a distinguished winner of the 2nd cycle of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Award. Striving to align with the continuous aspirations of the UAE Government for pioneering and innovation is the leading element behind our success.

While the culture of modernization prevails in our world today and technology is the foundation to evolution, the biggest challenge to businesses that have always committed to conventional norms is to innovate. Inspired by Henry Ford who transformed the automotive industry, Amana Group created DuBox to transform the construction industry by disrupting methods and changing how the world builds.

Dubox would like to thank the Dubai Chamber for its trust and support, and in particular the professional team throughout the process. It was a great honor to have participated in this Award. The contribution of the experts in providing valuable advice is highly appreciated and will be incorporated within DuBox’s DNA and culture of innovation.

 

Gulf Petrochemical Industries Co. (GPIC)

It was an honor and privilege to participate and win the H.H. Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Award. Taking part in such a prestigious award process has motivated us to follow a path of continuous learning and enhancement of our business performance and leadership.

The application process for the MRM Business innovation award was a journey of organizational excellence and sustainability development, encouraging us to review our innovation methodology and practices in our workplace and compare them to the MRM business innovation performance framework and benchmark our achievements with others.

We sincerely thank H.H. Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum for his wise leadership in promoting business innovation in the GCC. We also take this opportunity to congratulate Dubai Chamber for their ongoing professionalism in managing the process so skillfully and for being a strong and dedicated support to companies striving for excellence.

 

Jebel Ali Free Zone

Mohammed Al Muallem, CEO and Managing Director, DP World, UAE Region, said:

With regards to DP World, there are numerous benefits of rewarding business excellence. One provides the ability to compare benchmarks with other leading organisations, as well as allowing the opportunity to evaluate our strengths while marking the areas that need further development.

In addition, we continuously build our internal culture of improvement over maintaining the status quo. We do so by motivating our teams as we recognize their accomplishments, and help encourage employees to go above and beyond their designated roles to develop new and groundbreaking ideas such as the DP World Cargospeed, our Hyperloop based transportation system which in turn will revolutionize cargo movement.

 

Network International

For over 20 years, Network International has been delivering innovative solutions to boost the revenue and profitability of our customers. Innovation underpins the way we do business as well and is one of our main value propositions.

As a candidate for the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Award we had the opportunity to receive a comprehensive feedback on how we tap innovation across our organization and in which areas we can plan for further improvements. This will help us nurture a stronger innovative spirit and outline clear mechanisms for putting innovation at the fore of our operations.
Winning this award has motivated us to pursue more firsts in organizational excellence and in the exciting field of digital payments.

 

Samsotech

Samsotech is honored to be the winner of the 2nd Cycle of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Award.

Innovation has helped Samsotech to come up with innovative products and supply them across 117 countries. Winning this award has further boosted our efforts towards to thinking out-of-box, dare to come up with new products & venture to address potential in new countries.

The whole award application process and the feedback report that was shared after we won was a great learning experience. We are now even more energized and charged up to take up new challenges which would work in the benefit of our organization, customers, society and the environment.

 

Sharjah Islamic Bank

The MRM Innovation Award gave us a practical framework to align all our efforts towards the execution of our Innovation strategy. The framework helped us to integrate innovation goals in products and services, key processes as well as marketing approaches into one end to end undertaking leading to better synergies and efficiencies.

“Creativity and Innovation” is one of our core values. The award helped us in highlighting this value and identifying aligned projects and targets.

As a bank, we have always been at the forefront of embracing technology and introducing new products and services. Our experience with the award will help us to strengthen our initiatives in this space. Our vision is to become the bank of choice and Innovation is the philosophy that will take us there.

The Award Ceremony for the 1st Cycle of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Award and the 9th Cycle of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Award was held under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, to honor the winning companies who demonstrated exceptional performance in Excellence and Innovation.

The Award Ceremony, held on February 21st, 2017, was graced by H.H. Sheikh Maktoum Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, and was attended by heads of Government departments, dignitaries, board members of Dubai Chamber, representatives of business groups and councils and a large number of businessmen.

H.H. Sheikh Maktoum Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, presented the awards to the winning organisations of the 1st Cycle of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Award and the 9th Cycle of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Award.

1st Cycle Business Innovation Outstanding Winner	Country
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank	United Arab Emirates

1st Cycle Business Innovation Winning Companies	Country
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank	United Arab Emirates
Dar Al Sharia Islamic Finance Consultancy	United Arab Emirates
DP World – UAE Region	United Arab Emirates
Gulf Petrochemical Industries Co.	Kingdom of Bahrain
Huawei Tech (UAE)	United Arab Emirates
Kimoha Entrepreneurs	United Arab Emirates
Network International	United Arab Emirates
Wavetec	United Arab Emirates
X Architects	United Arab Emirates

Note: the above companies are presented in alphabetical order.

 

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank has been extremely honored to be awarded two prestigious awards by Dubai Chamber: The Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Award as well as the special prize recognizing Outstanding Innovation Performance.

ADCB’s consistent commitment to provide its customer with a superior banking experience has been recognised by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum through the prestigious Business Innovation Award. At ADCB, we put great energy and commitment to place the customer at the center of everything we do to support them during their key moments on their individual journeys. In this quest, innovation is core to the operating model for the bank as a whole and touches on all aspects of the bank.

This recognition encourages all of us to be even more innovative in understanding where our customers are and where they want to go and pursue our journey to customer excellence.

 

Dar Al Sharia Islamic Finance Consultancy

Dar Al Sharia is proud to have received the 1st Cycle MRM Business Innovation Award in recognition of its services to the global Islamic finance industry. We believe that the award is an excellent tool which helped us benchmark our organization amongst the peers and the business community at large. Being a global pioneer in Islamic finance consultancy, we are renown for our innovative solutions to Islamic institutions, and this Award further enhanced our standing.

The process followed for the determination of the award provided us the opportunity to further improve our internal processes leading to innovation and innovative solutions for our clients in line with the vision of Dubai.

 

DP World – UAE Region

It is an absolute honour for us to receive the highly-esteemed Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Award. Innovation to us means to shape a challenge into an opportunity, the smallest section of an organisation can have the greatest possibility to innovate.

At DP World – UAE region, we endorse the culture of innovation and encourage our people to think differently. This award is a tribute to our processes, services, latest technologies, and productive business model that adds value to the economy of Dubai and the UAE.

This recognition encourages all of us to be even more innovative in understanding where our customers are and where they want to go and pursue our journey to customer excellence.

 

Gulf Petrochemical Industries Co.

It was an honor and privilege to participate and win the H.H. Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Award. Taking part in such a prestigious award process has motivated us to follow a path of continuous learning and enhancement of our business performance and leadership.

The application process for the MRM Business innovation award was a journey of organizational excellence and sustainability development, encouraging us to review our business performance, practices in respect of the MRM business innovation performance framework and benchmark our achievements with others.

We sincerely thank H.H. Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum for his wise leadership in promoting business innovation in the GCC. We also take this opportunity to congratulate Dubai Chamber for their ongoing professionalism in managing the process so skillfully and for being a strong and dedicated support to companies striving for excellence.

 

Huawei Tech (UAE)

We are thrilled and honored to have won at the first cycle of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Award; a prestigious accolade that came as testament to Huawei’s leadership in innovation, having spent USD11 billion on research and development in 2016 alone, as well as its continuous efforts build a better connected world.

Under the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashed Al Maktoum, Dubai continues to make strides in its quest to become the world’s smartest and happiest city. There is no doubt that Dubai is poised to become the leader of the information society next 30 years. One of the simplest reasons Huawei feels honored, as well as obligated to work with the UAE, is because of the similarities the emirate shares with the company. A single vision of prosperity, innovation and growth unites us. Bettering life for today’s citizens unites us.

David Wang, CEO, Huawei UAE

 

Kimoha Entrepreneurs

Innovation is Kimoha’s philosophy. Winner of MRM Business Excellence Award in 2016 & 1st Cycle of MRM Business Excellence Innovation award 2017, a unique double, is an acknowledgement of this fact. Kimoha started its journey in 1988, growing continuously keeping pace with the growth of UAE & Dubai in particular.

The assessment process helped Kimoha be more focused with its innovation activities, truly honored & proud of having made an important contribution to the business community & UAE. We owe our inspiration to the vision of His Highness Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum UAE Vice President & Prime Minister & Ruler of Dubai “We implement what we plan and pursue actions, not the theories.”

 

Network International

It is an honour to win the prestigious Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Award, and be recognised by the Dubai Chamber for our commitment to innovation in the payments sector. In the past year, Network International has implemented an innovation-first business model that has allowed us to grow immensely and become a leader in introducing first-to-market payments solutions in the region.

Abdulla Qassem, Chairman, Network International

 

Wavetec

Wavetec is honored to have won the 1st Cycle of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Award. We have been in the service of creating memorable customer experiences for more than 2 decades. Our innovative technological solutions and expertise have helped businesses grow globally in numerous industries & business verticals.

We are proud to be the first company in Gulf who help businesses improve their in-store customer experience by making their customer flow organized, engaged & measurable.

Our success wouldn’t have been possible without our customers’ trust, immense contribution of Wavetec’s team members stationed in our eight global offices and endless efforts of our esteemed partners.
We extend our sincere appreciation to Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry & efforts in initiating the award and in turn promoting a culture of excellence, positive learning, and higher standards in business and product innovation.

 

X Architects

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Award is a unique award that provides businesses in the GCC region a distinctive benchmark for their business practices and performance in innovation and related areas that promote excellence in their field.

It is a great honor for X Architects to have received this award and to be the first architectural practice to have been recognised for its efforts in promoting the role of innovation as an essential element embedded in our work. Over fifteen years we have striven to deliver innovation in our designs and business approach to gain a competitive edge to create a unique place in the local market, regional and global market in terms of competitiveness and value to our clients and end user