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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General News
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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New systems, please!
Reading the last issue of Housing Technology, a few items caught my attention: Orbit with its timeline; Futures Housing with its tenant engagement apps; along with the articles with ‘digital’ in the headline. Those articles made me think of what ‘wonder pills’ the IT industry has prescribed, and what ‘lotions & potions’ the software providers…
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Reason Digital makes impact with SRoI tool
Reason Digital has developed its Impact software to help housing providers to measure, manage and report on the social return on investment (SRoI) of their projects. The cloud-based tool helps housing providers to save time, prevents the need to scour old spreadsheets and PDFs for data, and ensures that no social value is missed out…
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Benchmarking – The importance of efficiency
Benchmarking is important to compare performance and review efficiency; it enables comparisons to be drawn between you and similar organisations. Using benchmarking to drill into the strengths and weaknesses of your organisation enables smarter decision making, improved efficiency and enhances lean processes by reducing anything that is not adding value. Within the social housing sector,…
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