I’m not a real ninja. Let me just state that from the outset. I’d like to be, but I have a bad back, I’m from Hartlepool, and I’m not physically very agile… …Or am I (raises ninja eyebrow)? The word agile is used a lot at the moment, in different contexts and often meaning completely…
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046 - July 2015
All change on government’s procurement framework
Harry Metcalfe, managing director of dxw, a digital service provider to the public sector, provides an update on the latest government initiatives to provide a workable procurement framework for agile digital services. The successful development of user-focused digital services is a vital part of housing’s future. Increasingly, tenants will demand these solutions. But even if…
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Transforming RHP’s online services
Amina Graham, executive director of corporate services at RHP, reports on how putting tenants at the heart of its new IT automation processes has had transformational benefits for both its tenants and the housing provider itself. A key part of RHP’s vision is to be one of the best service providers in the UK. We…
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What is asset management in 2015?
Nobody currently active in the housing sector needs reminding that these are challenging times. Rarely has the sector faced such fundamental threats to its revenue stream as those posed by the advent of welfare reform and the extended right-to-buy. Housing providers are increasingly looking at other activities, some previously considered ‘non core’, to help bolster…
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New apprentices join Salix Homes
As regular readers will know, Housing Technology is a great supporter of housing providers’ apprenticeship schemes so we’re delighted to report that Salix Homes in Salford has just taken on nine new apprentices (from 150 applicants) in its environmental maintenance and security teams. Salix Homes also reported that it was one of the first housing…
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Southern IT Forum meeting at Microsoft
The Southern IT Forum’s June meeting was held at Microsoft’s offices in London towards the end of last month. The session started off with a presentation from Microsoft’s public-sector cloud strategist, Jeremy Tolmie, who took the group through IT transformation trends and Microsoft’s cloud services. He was followed by Steve Hughes, a Microsoft technology solutions…
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