In our experience and from anecdotal reports, up to 80 per cent of non-IT staff are unaware of the remit of an IT department. IT departments do a superb job of engineering, but expectations of IT often include software development or process refactoring. These are increasingly arenas for specialist outsourcing. A rock and a hard…
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How do you solve a problem like data?
Why digital assets aren’t like physical or financial assets and why the housing sector struggles to get the most from its data. Can you imagine that your properties needing to be repaired could be copied in an instant without cost and made available anywhere? No, neither can I. Everyone in housing talks about assets –…
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Just keep typing…
Having just been sent top-of-the-range mechanical keyboards from Cherry, the Housing Technology editorial team are now surprise converts to what might be termed ‘proper’ keyboards. While the humble keyboard is unlikely to ever feature on any housing provider’s list of productivity tools or be part of any digital transformation project, the productivity gains arising from…
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MIS Group pledges £20,000 to UK foodbanks
Over a ten-week period, MIS Group has pledged to donate £20,000 in total to twenty UK foodbanks nominated by the public. The campaign, which it has called Food for All will see the company donate £2,000 each week (two charities per week) across the ten weeks to foodbanks up and down the UK in a…
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Lack of VfM from IT – Itica survey
Earlier this year, Itica conducted its ‘Future of ICT’ survey but postponed its results until now to allow everyone to focus on dealing with the coronavirus. The main findings from Itica’s survey of around 100 respondents, from both housing providers and IT suppliers/consultants, are around the value for money that housing providers apparently gain from…
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Your work, your way at RHP
Over the past couple of years, we’ve been working hard to enable greater flexibility across RHP – a big part of which has been creating better opportunities for remote working. This has been achieved through our ‘Your work, your way’ flexible working programme, which was designed to empower people to get the most out of…
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