Cohesion between health and social care providers, local authorities and housing providers is crucial to enable the delivery of care to vulnerable people. Issues around collaboration between organisations in these sectors has been a challenge for some time and is limiting progress. Why collaborate? Collaboration is essential to enable the effective provision of proactive and…
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Birmingham uses Urban Intelligence AI to find land for new homes
Urban Intelligence has been awarded a contract by Birmingham City Council to undertake a review of land across the city using ground-breaking digital methods. Using artificial intelligence, the council can assess many more sites at a much faster pace, making it easier to fulfil its housing targets. Urban Intelligence’s geospatial analysis software will increase the…
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Is IT procurement a risky business?
We all aspire to be light on our feet, increase the pace of change, fail fast and adopt cloud computing, but are traditional procurement methods and routes to market holding us back? Or is the old guard standing fast? Having had a commercial role for nearly 30 years, I’ve seen many different procurement processes in…
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Driving digital transformation with better UX
As we write another quick message on WhatsApp or tap a virtual button to pay for groceries on our phone, it’s easy to forget how far these technologies have come, even in the last decade. Not so long ago, most digital services, and particularly business management systems, were the preserve of technical specialists. In many…
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Managing your digital risks
What steps can housing providers take to protect their digital infrastructures from cyber risks? In today’s world, digital transformation isn’t something any organisation can afford to neglect. On the whole, housing providers haven’t been seen as particularly tech-savvy, but with the pandemic pushing them into remote working, they have emerged digitally stronger. However, while digitalisation…
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Dorset’s housing services transform with Huume
Dorset Council has partnered with Huume to implement homelessness, housing register, lettings management and performance-monitoring services based around a single shared specification. The Huume platform is built around people and cases relating to each individual, ensuring that the customer journey between different housing functions is seamless, with a similar look and feel to gov.uk online…
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