Wrekin Housing has embarked on a widescale digital transformation programme, starting with the adoption of Advanced’s Cloud Financials software. As a real-time, cloud-based solution, the housing provider’s new budgeting and forecasting system is based on live information; all changes to data are immediate and reporting processes that previously took days can be completed within hours….
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Interview – Creating connections at Wrekin Housing
Housing Technology interviewed Wrekin Housing’s group head of marketing and communications, Edward Thomas, about how the housing provider coped with the pandemic, digital transformation and the importance of maintaining connections with its staff, tenants, contractors and external agencies. How did Wrekin Housing support its staff during the pandemic? Success for us means providing the best…
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IT apprentices – Where is your future talent coming from?
We benefit from a fantastic core of solid talent with excellent retention, but finding good ICT staff to replace leavers was increasingly fraught; half the problem was connecting with those potentially interested and the other half avoiding the pretenders, and the IT skills gap doesn’t help either. I usually try to avoid my children’s groans…
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Building your own housing management system
There’s an old saying, attributed to Oscar Wilde, that, “we may all be lying in the gutter but some of us are gazing at the stars”. It makes me think of the incongruity between, on the one hand, the lack of real choice and the diversity of options when it comes to the housing systems…
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