A recent report from Tribal Consulting has stressed the importance for social housing organisations to adopt good programme management systems to manage the work required to meet the requirements of the Government’s Decent Homes initiative. The ‘Current approaches to managing housing improvement programmes’ report produced by Tribal on behalf of Delcam PS-Team looks at what…
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ICT award for United House
United House has been commended for its Flag process management system in the recent Quality in Construction awards. The Flag systems, developed for United House by Propeller, is designed to integrate all of the different processes that are involved in refurbishment projects, enabling United House to manage a £200 million Decent Homes order book, including…
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Bromford Group active with MIS
Having been an MIS customer for the past 12 years, Bromford Group is now standardising its technology infrastructure around the MIS ActiveH suite of products to support its management of more than 25,000 properties across central England. Steve Percival, group director of ICT, Bromford Group, said, “We have grown substantially over the last decade and…
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Northgate acquired by KKR
Northgate Information Solutions has been acquired by private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts at an enterprise valuation of £1.1 billion and de-listed from the London Stock Exchange. The company expects to expand its public sector programme through organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Referring specifically to its social housing customers, Dave Meaden, managing director of public…
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Islands in the stream
A combination of the increasing IT skills of employees, as distinct from the IT department itself, and the user-friendliness of most business applications is resulting in the creation of employee- and department-specific micro-silos of data within housing associations, usually vital documents, spreadsheets or databases being stored on individual PCs or email accounts. The consequence of…
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Virtual Shoreline
Shoreline Housing Partnership has become the first housing organisation to virtualise its entire housing management systems. Shoreline was formed in March 2005 as part of a large-scale voluntary transfer. In common with many other LSVT’s, they needed to create an initial, short-term service level agreement for the provision of IT services between them and the…
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