Kevin Ives has been appointed as Sovereign Housing’s first chief information officer. Ives will join Sovereign’s executive board in August 2019 from his current role as digital transformation director at Arriva Trains. As well as leading Arriva’s digital transformation strategy, Kevin has had senior roles at Balfour Beatty, Transport for London and Thames Water. Mark…
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Plus Dane’s digital telecare with Appello
Plus Dane Housing has selected Appello to provide its first digital telecare solutions for residents. Appello will supply digital monitoring services to all 13 of the housing provider’s residential and extra-care schemes and will begin installing its digital telecare infrastructure and Smart Living Solutions suite into eight sites, replacing Plus Dane’s existing analogue systems. From…
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Places for People invests in Impact Reporting
Places for People has invested in Impact Reporting, a Manchester-based technology start-up created by the founders of Reason Digital. The housing provider has been working with the software provider for the past two years on its social impact reporting tools. The company is already valued at £2 million after its first year of trading and…
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Less haste, more speed
Digital transformation gives housing providers the ability, among other benefits, to create seamless communications and to transform business processes. And particularly in the case of housing mergers and acquisitions, seamless communications are essential when faced with two (or more) telephony systems, networks and call centres. Deconstructing digital transformation Digital transformation doesn’t have to be a…
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How to be a disruptive influence…
I remember the first time someone told me, “Gas Tag is the ‘disruptor’ in this sector.” I vividly remember having a spring in my step for the rest of that day, thinking that we’re finally making our mark. But in hindsight, I’m not so sure that being a disruptor is always perceived in the way…
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Regenda’s new housing data landscape
At Regenda Group, we are working on the implementation of a large-scale digital strategy – led by our business transformation team, the project aims to improve services to tenants and internally between teams. One version of the truth One of the main aims of our strategy is to create ‘one version of the truth’ for…
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