Caredig, a Swansea-based housing provider whose name means ‘kind’, offers some tips for using technology in a way that keeps people and relationships at the heart of their work. Help staff transition away from pen and paper When we first started working with Housing Insight (our software consultants) three years ago, we were looking for…
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Customer Management
Improving tenants’ experience with Microsoft Customer Voice
In England, over 20 new tenant satisfaction measures (TSMs) will be used by the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) from April 2023 to gather data on how satisfied tenants are with the performance of their housing providers. The TSMs will address five primary topics, including maintenance, building safety, effective complaint handling, tenant interactions and neighbourhood…
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If you build it, will they come?
You may consider the most challenging part of implementing and managing a resident portal is securing the initial funds to implement it in the first place. In reality, funding is only half the battle. Once in place, there will be a huge amount of attention on the platform as pressure grows to justify its expense…
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Cobalt Housing takes XMReality for first-line support
XMReality is now being used by Cobalt Housing for first-line support and diagnosis for the 70,000 calls and emails the housing provider receives each year, mostly concerning repairs. Call-centre staff log each repair with Cobalt Housing’s external contractors and then use XMReality’s Remote Guidance tool to further diagnose the problems. Remote Guidance uses augmented reality…
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TSMs – Data meets engagement
Housing data often originates from fundamental processes, such as tenancies, payments and repairs. As they occur, these processes generate transactions which create lots of data that’s crucial for housing providers to collect and analyse. However, ‘big housing data’ isn’t just generated from transactions. There is also a longstanding commitment by the sector to understand how…
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Make your residents happy – Find out what they hate…
Trevor Hampton, director of housing solutions at NEC Software Solutions, explores the power of finding out what people don’t like. Do you dread phoning your energy, phone or broadband provider to ask a question, make a complaint or raise a concern? Is your expectation that you will be stuck waiting for your call to be…
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