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By Tony Rhoades, Founder and CEO: At GroundWOW, everyone knows our company journey is also their personal journey. That’s important to us. We don’t let even a single week go by without reviewing it against our shared goals. An activity taking just a few minutes provides a vital ‘climate check’ on the environment in our business. We recognise that our people are our ‘living dashboard’ – a powerful symbol of organisational health if you know how to read it. So, at 3pm every Friday, each team member reviews the week in terms of (1) successes, (2) failures, (3) lessons, and (4)...

Momentum is an indication of how hard it would be stop something, and the rate of change in momentum is proportional to the net force acting on it – all of which is affected by its frame of reference (in simple terms, its environment). It seems a strange time to talk about momentum when daily life has changed in such dramatic fashion as the result of a global pandemic. But the world’s momentum has been affected by an enormous force acting on it and the rate of change for the economy, and everyone within it, is significant and costly. Coronavirus...

As many of you will have seen from our social media and the website itself, we recently completed a major project in collaboration with The Jockey Club – namely a large scale logo installation for long-term Cheltenham Festival sponsor, Magners Irish Cider. Here is how a world first for racing came about… We presented our technology to The Jockey Club in July 2019 at their London Head Office and fair to say, we were immediately invigorated by their response. The discussion revealed genuine appetite for what our hosts referred to as “enabling new inventory” and the GroundWOW proposition was subsequently...

At GroundWOW, a big part of the employment culture is the recruitment and development of student interns who are part way through their formal education. Company Founder and CEO Tony Rhoades is a former academic himself and he understands full well the benefit (both for an employer and the student) of Intern placements. Our current three Interns represent distinct parts of the business which means we have a Software Intern, a Product Design Intern and an Engineering Intern. We caught up with them recently to get a genuine sense of what it has been like to join and become a...