The Systems category recognises designs that focus on processes to optimize operations, engineering services, or strategies. A successful submission will demonstrate a process or entirely new methodology that enhances the efficiency of a system.

Winning innovations are fundamental to progress whether they be continual incremental improvement or a radical sea change in the way things are done.

All systems can be improved, from the way we organise and access information to enhance learning, reduce redundancy of effort and resources and deliver better-informed decision making. This can also be applied to the way that businesses organise themselves, optimizing efficiency to improve processes such as food production, biochemistry, distribution, waste management, agriculture and recycling.