In February around 25 SME G-Cloud providers, led by web services provider DXW, united in their dismay at the government’s latest agile procurement initiative, Digital Services 2 (DS2) and lobbied for change. They felt that the framework, in theory designed to enable the public sector to engage with agile service providers to build digital services…
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IT suppliers support Cottsway Housing to help save local food bank
Cottsway Housing Association in Oxfordshire has been overwhelmed by the support from some of its IT contractors and suppliers after the volunteers running the Oxfordshire West Food Bank asked the housing provider for help. Due to limited space and access, as well as a lack of heating and facilities for the volunteers, the food bank…
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The boardroom paper chase
The quarterly board meeting may be one of the fundamental aspects of traditional corporate structures. But it has remained completely unchanged, still relying in the majority of cases on hundreds of pages of paper presented and collated up to several weeks before the meeting. But with budgetary pressures and the need for real-time problem solving,…
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DXW wins Accountability Hack with ‘Right to Buy-Bye’
DXW, a provider of digital services to the housing sector, recently spent 48 hours at the National Audit Office in London for Parliament’s ‘Accountability Hack 2014’ in order to demonstrate what can be achieved over one weekend, powered by nothing more than skill, talent and caffeine, and going on to win the ONS Challenge and…
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Town & Country Housing saves £75,000 with BoardPad
Town & Country Housing Group is now using BoardPad software to create and distribute board packs for more than 50 board, committee and group executive meetings. Paul Cooper, deputy company secretary, Town & Country Housing Group, said, “We estimated that it was costing us around £75,000 per year to put together our paper packs. We…
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Top service from Nottingham On Call
Nottingham City Homes’ Nottingham On Call service has retained its accreditation from the Telecare Services Association. Nottingham On Call is a 24-hour emergency response service for NCH tenants, plus those from other housing organisations, who sign up for the service. It works through a telephone link to a Nottingham-based call centre and allows tenants who…
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