Leeds, 18 November 2020 – The BigChange Network is helping two lift companies collaborate to extend the geographical reach of their operations whilst maintaining their service standards and customer satisfaction levels.
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20th October 2020 – The number of companies sharing jobs with partners and subcontractors through BigChange has increased by 75% in the last year, as more organisations in the service sector turned to collaboration to deliver for their customers.
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20th October 2020 – This month BigChange hosted a roundtable conversation for women in senior leadership roles, about the success of women in business and challenges they have overcome.
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14th September 2020 – When should leaders invest in homegrown talent or go headhunting? Is there a place in a team for driven but disruptive employees? Is leading with transparency always the right way?
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BigChange, which has featured among TechTrack’s top 100 companies every year since 2018, was the second fastest growing company from Yorkshire and the seventh in the North of England. It was recognised for achieving average sales growth of 62 percent per annum over the last three years.
Martin Port, founder and CEO of BigChange, comments:
“In just over seven years in business BigChange has transformed the industry in which it operates, and made high-end mobile workforce management tools available to organisations of all sizes. Our inclusion among the UK’s fastest growing technology companies for the third year in a row is testament to the power and scalability of our technology, and the dedication of the BigChange team.”
BigChange’s pioneering mobile workforce and job management solution, JobWatch, provides organisations of any size with a paperless means of planning, managing, scheduling, and tracking their mobile workforce operations. It is used by 45,000 mobile workers and back-office personnel at over 1,400 organisations worldwide, primarily working in the construction, facilities management, field service, transport, logistics and waste management sectors.
BigChange has released the first image from its exclusive nine part series ‘Secrets of Leadership with Kevin Keegan OBE’.
In the show, the former England manager sits down with BigChange founder Martin Port to discuss the similarities between running a great team and a great business.
Together the pair cover a whole host of topics: the importance of trust and transparency with your employees, the balance of growing talent vs recruiting talent, and how to manage the ‘disruptive geniuses’.
If you want to be the first to know when the series drops, submit your email here to be notified.
In the first of a series of BigChange virtual round tables talking about topical issues facing the British industry, this panel discussion examines the impact on mental health that Covid-19 has, recommendations on what employers should be doing over the coming months and concludes in a questions and answers session.
Thank you to all our panellists for their contributions to this informative and inspiring discussion:
Donations are welcome, and should be directed at Leeds Mind.
Firstly, I’d like to congratulate BigChange for receiving its Queens Award for Enterprise. It’s a phenomenal achievement and well deserved. BigChange makes a massive contribution to our business.
Contego started life in 2004 as a one-man-band specialising in bird control and has grown to become one of the largest national pest control businesses in the UK. BigChange has ensured our operations could keep up with that level of growth.
We’ve used BigChange for several years now, and it has transformed our business. It gives us complete visibility of our operations and allows us to manage our national workforce centrally from our base in County Durham.
I’ve always been an early adopter of digital technology and explored three or four other options before settling on BigChange. JobWatch pulls everything together. It allows us to run our business processes on a single piece of software.
The beauty of Jobwatch is that it’s customizable. We’ve created a series of dynamic processes to cover every stage of the employee journey, from induction to job worksheets and inspection documents. BigChange provides lots of support when we need it, and ensures the software does what we need it to.
BigChange has also enabled us to offer greater visibility to our customers. Using data from our worksheets, we can automatically make our customers aware of the threats and risks at their different sites.
BigChange is also central to our safety and compliance activities. Each of our people uses BigChange to complete their daily vehicle checks, which alerts our fleet manager to any problems and allows remedial work to be booked immediately.
Our risk assessments and workflows are also available on BigChange, guiding our technicians in the field and helping them complete work safely. We can see when things are done, and we’ve got access to a full audit trail.
I couldn’t recommend BigChange more highly. The technology is excellent and easy-to-use, and it has ensured that we’ve remained in control as our business has grown. It would have been much more challenging to grow at the speed we have been without BigChange.
BigChange was recognised in the 2020 Innovation category for developing JobWatch, a mobile workforce management system that connects back office staff, mobile workers and customers, enabling users to automate manual processes, reduce paper usage and facilitate collaboration on the go.
When it launched in 2013, JobWatch was delivered as a cloud-based service and sold on a per-user basis. This reduced the cost and complexity of introducing the technology and made high-end mobile workforce tools accessible to organisations of all sizes for the first time. It is now used by 45,000 mobile workers and back-office personnel at 1,300 organisations globally.
The Queen’s Award for Enterprise celebrates businesses who excel at international trade, innovation or sustainable development. BigChange, which employs 167 people, will receive its award at a Buckingham Palace reception later this year.
Martin Port, founder and CEO of BigChange, commented:
“We are delighted to win such a prestigious award. This recognises the efforts of our people who have worked so hard to develop and deliver JobWatch, as well as the customers that inspire and use it everyday to grow and transform their own industries. We have global ambitions for BigChange and this honour will open doors for us around the world.”
Daniel Long, Managing Director of Clearabee, commented:
“We’ve worked with BigChange since the early days of Clearabee, and it remains a critical pillar in our technology strategy. BigChange is integrated into all parts of our business and saves us a tremendous amount of time. What we like most about the JobWatch platform is its versatility. BigChange continues to add new features and new functionality. It is continuously innovating and adding to the system.”
Michael Taylor, CEO of Contego Environmental Services, comments:
“Contego started life in 2004 as a one-man-band specialising in bird control and has grown to become one of the largest national pest control businesses in the UK. BigChange has ensured our operations could keep up with that level of growth. We’ve used BigChange for several years now, and it has transformed our business. It gives us complete visibility of our operations and allows us to manage our national workforce centrally from our base in County Durham.”
Clearabee is the fastest growing waste management business in Europe and the UK’s largest clearance company. We employ 300 people across the UK and complete between 600 and 1,000 waste clearance jobs a day.
We’ve worked with BigChange since the early days of Clearabee, and it remains a critical pillar in our technology strategy. BigChange is integrated into all parts of our business and saves us a tremendous amount of time.
It provided us with a cutting edge in the early days of our business and has grown with us as we expanded.
Today, we run our business now using a combination of BigChange and our bespoke software. We make extensive use of BigChange’s API, and our developers can focus on creating other things to sit on top of the BigChange platform.
BigChange provides a solid foundation for that work. We don’t have to think about things like device management, data contracts, hosting large amounts of sensitive data, or uptime.
What we like most about the JobWatch platform is its versatility. The platform works for small and large companies alike. BigChange continues to add new features and new functionality. It is continuously innovating and adding to the system.
BigChange is a young, dynamic company, and an essential partner for Clearabee. You could say that we’ve grown up together and we are thrilled to see the success it has achieved.
On behalf of everyone here at Clearabee, congratulations to BigChange on winning a Queen’s Award for Enterprise. You deserve it.