We benefit from a fantastic core of solid talent with excellent retention, but finding good ICT staff to replace leavers was increasingly fraught; half the problem was connecting with those potentially interested and the other half avoiding the pretenders, and the IT skills gap doesn’t help either. I usually try to avoid my children’s groans…
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General News
Digital transformation success – Icebergs and hothouses
There’s a humorous little Irish story about a man on a journey in Ireland. As he sets off for his destination, he comes to a T-junction but doesn’t know which way to turn. He stops and asks a local farmer who happens to be standing by the side of the road for directions. But the…
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A day in the life… at Coastal Housing
If I’m feeling lazy, my day will start around 8am with black coffee and a mailbox of backup and maintenance notifications. If I’m not feeling lazy, I’ll slope in around 9am after being good and going to the gym, by which time the notifications will have been attended to by our lead support analyst, Mat…
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When housing IT projects go wrong
Housing providers’ IT projects now support a rapidly changing, increasingly mobile workforce that provide services to increasingly tech-savvy and demanding tenants. In a world where customers are used to placing orders via smartphone for next-day delivery, the bar is now set high for repairs and maintenance service levels and innovation including IoT; and residents can…
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Spotlight on gender in housing IT
Coastal Housing Group and Sovereign Business Integration Group look at how gender diversity in housing IT is changing in a traditionally male-dominated sector. Has the role of women in society ever been so hotly debated? From women’s suffrage to the recent gender pay gap headlines, the debate rages on. Recent reports have gone onto reveal…
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The Internet of Things in Housing
To coincide with the 60th edition and ten years of Housing Technology magazine, we are very pleased to give you a preview of our ‘Internet of Things in Housing 2017/18’ report which will be published at the end of this month. Please see housingtechdev.wpengine.com/iot17report to pre-order your copy. Our new report comprises the UK’s first…
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