Our sector faces a daunting set of challenges including ageing infrastructure, rising living costs and residents with complex needs, all while being scrutinised by new regulatory standards. Can technology help find solutions? Our homes and communities have an impact on our relationships, employment prospects and educational outcomes as well as our mental health. Every home…
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Housing Management
Leaning towards change and innovation
Over the years, best practice project management frameworks and methodologies such as Prince2, Agile, Lean, ITIL and COBIT have been adopted across both public and private sectors to facilitate significant change programmes and business transformation. Having spent many years in the public sector driving change and innovation, I’ve consistently leaned (excuse the pun) towards Lean…
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Self-customisation killed the ‘home brew’
My first job, while still at university, was to help a company move its customer relations database from an Access creation to an industry standard CRM. That was back in 2000, and ‘home brew’ low-code options have been around far longer. They all have the same back story, led by someone who knew a particular…
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Reducing the cost of software quality
Is anything more important than stopping defects from escaping into live operations and disrupting users? In almost half of organisations, it seems that reducing the costs of development, testing and bug-fixing are more important. This insight came from a 2023 survey Acutest commissioned from IDC/ Foundry. Of the 109 organisations surveyed across various business sectors…
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The next generation of housing IT
Housing Technology’s editorial team is in the middle of researching the next generation of IT providers for our sector, the results of which will be published in our special Proptechs & Housing IT Start-ups 2024/25 report in July. If you’re using or investigating innovative software options from smaller technology start-ups and/or proptechs, we’d love to…
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Cost-effective systems integration
At a time when housing providers are struggling to make every penny count, some IT teams are considering creating new in-house systems integration teams. Manifest Software Solutions prides itself on being the leading independent provider of systems integration in social housing and challenges the lack of market testing around decisions to do-it-yourself, decisions that often…
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