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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General News
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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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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Parkhead Housing using Decision Time
Parkhead Housing is now using Decision Time’s suite of governance tools to help them to structure and manage their meetings, encourage proactive risk management and monitor their organisational performance. James Strang, chief executive of Parkhead Housing and president of the Chartered Institute of Housing, said, “Sound governance is absolutely crucial to any successful organisation. How…
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The show must go on…
We’ve started in earnest on the production of the Housing Technology 2020 conference and as part of our background activities, it’s been interesting to look back to see how the focus and themes of the conference have changed since the first one in 2010 – those themes are a good barometer and bellwether for the…
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Transferable IT skills & becoming a housing trustee
I realised a few years ago that I wanted to become a board member for a housing provider and so be able to continue using skills and knowledge gained during a wide-ranging ICT career. The idea fitted in with the voluntary work that I have done for almost 20 years, helping resolve ICT problems for…
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