After over a year of build-up, GDPR has now been in force for over three months. But the real journey for the housing sector is only just beginning, as Daniela Flores, in-house counsel and GDPR officer at Insite Energy, explains. The deadline of 25 May 2018 certainly created a sense of urgency, but the scope…
GDPR is here – What happens next?Read More →
General News
Sneak preview – Housing Technology’s The E-State of the Nation 2018
We are in the middle of gathering data for our ‘The E-State of the Nation 2018’ report (there’s still time to contribute to the online survey at housingtechdev.wpengine.com/2018report), so we thought it would be interesting to give you a very rough snapshot of the likely trends so far: Business vs. technology decisions – Housing providers’…
Sneak preview – Housing Technology’s The E-State of the Nation 2018Read More →
The importance of data-driven housing
“One necessary qualification for anyone in management is to stop asking people to explain the ups and downs (day to day, month to month, and year to year) that come from random variation.” Dr Brian Joiner The importance of data and especially its security has come to prominence of late, not just in the housing…
The importance of data-driven housingRead More →
Women in IT at Flagship Group
Flagship Group is proud to be above the UK national average for the number of female employees working in IT; the seven roles vary from GIS development and infrastructure specialists to business partners. Housing Technology interviewed some of Flagship’s IT team about their roles and women in IT. Starting out in IT Rachael Leeder, an…
Women in IT at Flagship GroupRead More →
Housing IT standard from HACT
HACT has launched version 1.0 of its free data standard for housing IT. Created in conjunction with 17 housing providers, the data standard focuses on core tenant data, and the voids and allocations process. It includes a reference data model, data exchange standards, supporting documentation, and implementation business cases. Andrew van Doorn, chief executive, HACT,…
Housing IT standard from HACTRead More →
T for technology or team?
Many of you will have seen the headlines on the increasing rise in IT project failures, how project costs overrun by 45 per cent on average and deliver only 56 per cent of the intended benefits*. So, what is IT project success? The fundamentals of project management are time, cost and quality to deliver an…
T for technology or team?Read More →
