What does it mean to be innovative? Innovation is sometimes described as a kind of ‘big bang’ conceptual beast which can scare a lot of people. In reality, innovation is actually about getting the right people, processes and technologies and merging them together. Unless you get the right balance of all three, you will have…
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Housing Management
Great partnerships for even greater results
Finding the right Microsoft partner for your housing organisation is just like trying to find a real-life partner; there will be challenges you’ll face that you hope your partner can support you with and searching for ‘the one’ can take time. After all, there’s a certain degree of trust necessary for a good relationship and…
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Link’s innovation challenge
You may have noticed that there are endless articles, white papers and products that have some relationship to innovation. Yet ‘innovation’ can be difficult to define and exploiting its potential advantages can be equally problematic and can leave you wondering, “what is innovation within my organisation?” Fundamentally, we’re talking about change. That is to say,…
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Paperless tenancies
How feasible and useful is it for housing providers to move to a 100% digital tenant lifecycle, from initial application and onboarding to tenant engagement, finance and payments, and maintenance and support, through to renewals, voids and re-lettings? Housing Technology asked digital experts from Civica, Commonplace, Insite Energy, M-Files and NEC Software Solutions for their…
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Decarbonisation – The clock is ticking and data is key
The pressures facing the social housing sector in meeting an ever-pressing decarbonisation agenda are huge. It’s well known that homes are a major contributor to the climate crisis. Powering and heating buildings account for 40 per cent of the UK’s total energy use, with England’s homes alone emitting more carbon emissions every year than all…
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Following the thread – What the draft Building Safety Bill means for housing data
When Dame Judith Hackitt published the ‘Building a Safer Future’ report, she recommended the introduction of a ‘golden thread’ policy, including the digital standards that should underpin the implementation of a golden thread of information. When the Building Safety Bill becomes law later this year, building owners will need to demonstrate that they have effective…
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