Our plans for world domination unveiled!
Tuesday 30th June 2015
Last week thebigword held its Annual Conference and, if I do say so myself, it was
our best ever!
I
think this year was different because in the past twelve months we have
successfully launched our Interpreting Management System (IMS), and in the last
two months we launched our Translation Management System (TMS).
It sounds easy to just
write ‘launched’ but this technology has taken over three years to develop and
like all great technology, will continue to evolve. Challenges for companies
like ours, are our science - like the ever increasing demand for speed, accuracy
and at a cost-effective rate.
The language market has now grown to over £23.5m
($37m) per annum. The work we are doing with localising websites, for example,
is really mind blowing and bringing together our 8,000 linguists working from
73 countries and more than 3,000 different global clients is something we are
very proud of.
At the end of my blog you
can see a recent article written about thebigword which gives you more
information. In the meantime, a special thanks to all our attendees which for
the first time this year included not just our own people but some of our
advisors and of great importance, a number of our very special clients.
As well as our Conference,
on the Friday evening we also held our Annual Dinner and Awards ceremony which
recognises the excellence of our colleagues and I attach a photograph of myself
with the four winners.
Of course, what is so
special about winning these awards is that the winners are nominated and voted
for by their colleagues and not the senior management. So huge congratulations
to them all!
Looking forward to catching
up with you next week with more news (I am sitting in the airport as my plane
to New York is delayed).
Regards,
Larry
Our Award Winners!
(From left: Chris Sloan, winner of 'Proud of our Achievements'; Angelika Beglaryan, winner of 'Freedom to Succeed'; Larry Gould, CEO; Iza Ignatowicz, winner of 'Thinking without Borders', and Sam Walker, winner of 'Enjoyable and Challenging Work')
