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Carolinas Core Awards - Innovation of the Year - The Waveguide/Compass Group | Awards Video

24 Mar 2023 · 2 min

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In this awards video, speakers recognize Waveguide and Compass Group as the 2019 Innovation of the Year winners at the Carolinas Core Awards. The core of the celebration is the Waveguide Utilization and Wellness Analytics Tool, a platform that combines space‑utilization data with wellness metrics to help organizations optimize workplace environments. The presenters highlight several key innovations: the tool’s rapid development cycle—moving from concept to full implementation in just four weeks—its cost‑effectiveness, and the fact that Waveguide operates as an internal service provider within Compass Group. They also describe how the technology enables collaborative workspaces by delivering real‑time insights into who is in the office, where they go, and what they do. Finally, the speakers note the tool’s ability to integrate disparate enterprise data sources, including badge data, into a unified reporting system that makes it easy to ask and answer questions about space usage and employee wellness quickly.

Coronet Carolina's 2019 Innovation of the Year. Congratulations, Waveguide and Compass Group.
The Waveguide Utilization and Wellness Analytics Tool, I think that is a pretty good descriptor of what it does. It helps you understand how you can utilize your space more effectively, but also from a wellness standpoint. to help promote wellness in the workplace.
What was so innovative about this tool was we went from idea to implementation in 4 weeks. It was very cost-effective. We were able to use Waveguide, who is a part of Compass Group, as an internal service provider. It was way beyond my expectations.
It's a collaborative area. We want everybody to come in and be able to collaborate and to have all the different we spaces to go to versus me space. So that's, that's the future. The technology helps us get there because again, we have the powerful data that's going to show us who is coming into the office, where they're going, what they're doing, their behaviors.
We knew we had a lot of enterprises with a lot of disparate data sources, and we wanted reporting that combined those data sources. Made it really simple to then add badge data from Compass and make that work here. There's always another question to be asked of the data, so what we do is just make it easy to, to ask those questions and get the answers quickly.
Congratulations, Waveguide and Compass Group, the Cornet Carolina's 2019 Innovation of the Year!