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Ideas Drive Change Understanding My Contribution and the value of employee ideas
Understanding My Contribution
Ideas Drive Change 1 What is MyC about?
Changing the company for the better
Microsoft didn’t invent the ‘mouse’; James Watt didn’t invent the My Contribution is Balfour Beatty’s engagement programme for
steam engine and Thomas Edison didn’t come up with the lightbulb. employee led business change. It harnesses the latent potential
What they did do was to relentlessly focus on improving what there of thousands of employees’ ideas to improve the ways in which
already was. They challenged what was ‘good’ and wouldn’t accept they collaborate and work together every day.
anything less than great. My Contribution is about people and engagement, with individuals
In doing so, they transformed their ideas into truly revolutionary MyC even stepping forward with their ideas and energy to help build a better
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The 2020s present the construction industry with challenges on a These ideas drive change, making the business more efficient,
scale not seen before. The necessary drive to be safer and far more safer and ultimately a better place to work.
sustainable. Meeting skills shortages and increasing productivity. tter
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can invariably identify the need for change, however, they often across Balfour Be
What is crystal clear is that the ideas and the enthusiasm are there MyC is launched
don’t have the means to take the next steps and implement any UK and Ireland
for positive change and innovation: we just need to provide the
culture, the opportunity and the focus. improvement.
There is inherent potential and opportunity within our industry that My Contribution is the empowering way through which employees
could be greatly multiplied if we act as a connected industry, can take the necessary direct action, working together to deliver
collaborating on innovation to truly transform our business, our their ideas.
industry and the benefits we bring to society. My Contribution addresses the opportunity for idea development
Over the next few pages is further detail on My Contribution at The MyC
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to MyC m rtal gives access summarised in the words of Balfour Beatty Group Chief Executive,
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benefits it can bring. Leo Quinn: “Together we are building a stronger business from the
inside out - when it comes to identifying ways of improving our
business, who better to ask than all our people?”
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Understanding My Contribution
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My Contribution uses Microsoft Yammer and the Sideways 6 From the leadership – right across the company, the clear
idea platform as the means of engagement, enabling message to employees is that everyone is empowered to submit
employees to submit their idea using #idea and other relevant their own ideas to bring about positive change – a key message
hashtags to identify specific subject areas. being – ‘Go On! Get Involved!’
Every employee can get involved,
Across the company more than 400 volunteer employees have Anyone can take the initiative, step forward and submit their idea
wherever they work
stepped forward to form ‘Team MyC’ – undertaking special as to how something might work better and what benefits will be
roles to assess and where appropriate progress ideas through delivered. Wherever possible, idea contributors are directly
to delivery. involved in the idea implementation, with the relevant support.
Within Team MyC are MyC Leads, who collaborate with As well as submitting their own ideas, through Yammer
employees on idea development , MyC Ambassadors More than 400 volunteers have stepped employees can comment on or like ideas of others, collaborating
forward to take up roles in Team MyC
promoting My Contribution as a whole and MyC Subject with colleagues to help ideas move forward, whilst others run
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Every day My Contribution is 100% results focussed. Open
dashboards are shared across the business providing the ability
to drill down to function, business unit and project level, showing
the number of ideas raised and progressed, with statistics on the
actual results and benefits that have been delivered.
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often a standard item on meeting agendas, where managers, leaders
and teams discuss progress, updates on ideas and share success Essentially it doesn’t, since My Contribution continues to
stories. The business Executive Committee also explore My become part of the culture of Balfour Beatty and established as
Contribution progress and developments every week on the Group the way people communicate, build ideas and work better
Chief Executive’s Pulse call. together.
A MyC Cake promotes engagement!
My Contribution really is open to all and is supported at every level My Contribution engagement is now also part of the annual
within the business, with Group Chief Executive Leo Quinn delivering Personal Development Review (PDR) process undertaken with
his own idea to replace taxi rides or parking costs for Heathrow airport individual employees and their managers. As part of this
with taking the bus shuttle service from close to the offices - an idea process employees are able to highlight how they have been
that can potentially save £000’s per annum. part of My Contribution in any way.
Inclusive engagement is critical, so for the more than 4,000 employees
based on construction sites who do not have digital identities, idea People working together are building
Balfour Beatty
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6 What has My Contribution
Employees are surveyed on a regular basis and the quotations below are taken from
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employee perspectives on the effectiveness of My Contribution.
In February 2021 it will be 2 years since the new launch of My
Contribution – in which we have seen significant benefits delivered to
the business from the power of employee ideas. “Putting staff in touch with people whom “..people progress an idea they may have
they may never have met or spoken to previously kept to themselves for lack of
More than 6,600 ideas have been submitted with those implemented allows ideas to flourish…” knowing who to best pitch it at.”
so far achieving over £22 million in cost savings and more than 54,000
hours of saved time.
“….there is a buzz about MyC”
Ideas have received over 42,000 comments with a MyC Zero Harm
campaign in October 2019 resulting in over 560 ideas for safety “The discussion and delivery of “The MyC Team acting as a “Great way to see what other
improvements, and our Bouncing Back campaign in 2020 in response to the idea all happened very central hub for staff connections SBU’s are doing and networking
COVID-19 generating more than 550 ideas in a week. naturally and quickly” is brilliant.” with the wider BB community.
Balfour Beatty, is a large and dispersed business with over 40 offices
and more than 560 construction sites. A further achievement of My “Its an effective way of “Loving the ideas being
Contribution is how employees are able to collaborate with colleagues implementing ideas and “Weekly Spark updates – a great generated and the engagement
they would not usually work with, in different functions or improving ways we work, idea to catch up in what is new.” across the business – creating
geographical locations – often physically seeing the difference that Gold whilst saving money.” a real buzz and vibe”
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Solar Powered Savings Cleaning Up
David Bacchus’ idea of using Sam Johnson’s simple idea
solar powered lights as a to switch contracts for the
temporary replacement for cleaning and maintenance of
Navigation Lights removed project site uniforms for the
the need for any cabling, BBGE Plant Facility delivered
saving £9600 of costs and 3 a cash saving of £15,124.
days of time.
£185K Better
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Drainage Challenge Sound Monitoring
When Jonathan Cochrane’s Through sourcing and using
team proposed a change innovative sound ear
from the existing highway monitoring systems, the team
drainage design of near road on the Waterworks Bridge
gullies on the Lower Early project in Stratford were able
Way Dualling Project to use to alert operatives when
combined drainage curbs parameters were reached,
instead, they realised a £185K saving on the project. enabling safety mitigation controls or potentially
eliminating noise by using alternative methods.
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Driving Change Quick Revision
Gemma Heasman delivered a Sally Coultas-Paul delivered
saving of 675 hours of a saving of 975 hours through
unnecessary journey time her idea of creating a weekly
when she delivered on her non-completion list on
idea of combining the legal projects. This enabled quick
requirement for downloading revision of these tasks and
each HGVs tachograph data for trends to be identified
with the regularly scheduled preventative maintenance and actioned.
inspections.
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