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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Customer Management
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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£440,000 funding for older residents’ IT services
Bield Housing, Haringey Council, Platform Housing, Pobl Group, Southend Care and Wiltshire Council will each receive around £70,000 in funding to involve their older residents in shaping new digital services. The funding is part of the TAPPI project (Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation) which aims to improve the way technology is used…
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Meaningful resident engagement
Brendan Sarsfield, the former CEO of Peabody and now a strategic advisor at NEC Software Solutions UK explores how technology can create a new type of shared ownership and drive resident engagement. When you work in the complex and challenging world of social housing, you know it’s about the property, the people and how they…
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