Nottingham Community Housing Association is one of the first UK housing providers to use a new, hi-tech door-entry system. Tenants in 20 flats at a converted warehouse can now lock and unlock their doors remotely with their smartphones. Using technology from Intratone, the aim of the pilot project is to improve access to each flat…
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044 - March 2015
Measuring IT – Are you looking in the right direction
I have recently been thinking about the sorts of performance measures that get used in the housing sector and the way that IT systems are used to generate management information. I have come to the conclusion that much of that management information probably at best represents something different to what most senior managers and board…
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Habinteg continues i-stay@home trial
Habinteg Housing in south London is leading the pan-European i-stay@home project in the UK with partners from France, Germany, Holland and Belgium. Its disabled tenants are testing high-tech solutions aimed at making everyday tasks easier for older and disabled people. 180 tenants across Europe are trying out a range of gadgets and judging their usefulness,…
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The benefits of information governance
Sir – Many people regard information governance as another potential compliance issue; something that drains resources as you try to jump through legislative and regulatory hoops. If that’s your position, then perhaps you are failing to see the potential of information governance as a means to drive change, increase efficiency and just generally do things…
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Peabody plans £1m RoI with Infor
Peabody has upgraded to the latest version of Infor SunSystems in a bid to achieve a return on investment of around £1 million over the next five years. The iPOS purchase-to-pay application is expected to improve efficiency and achieve cost savings by enabling departmental-level procurement, with simplified budget checking when raising orders and reduced support…
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Inspiring change in social housing
What does it take to get the people who work in social housing really inspired? Well, at the Housing Technology 2015 conference this month, Barry Marlow and I both had a really good go at it. Barry is one of those charismatic, dyed in the wool housing types who work with housing providers to help…
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