Notting Hill Genesis won the silver award in the data management category of the inaugural Housing Technology 2024 awards. Shae McCalla, head of data governance and performance at Notting Hill Genesis, explains more about their prize-winning data management project. Notting Hill Genesis’s data governance approach started in early 2022 and has become the backbone of…
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Housing Management
Wales & West moves to Dynamics with Infinity Group
Wales & West Housing has moved to Microsoft Dynamics 365, completely replacing its Capita housing management system. Gareth Davies, director of technology and data, Wales & West Housing, said, “A big part of our reason for moving to Microsoft Dynamics 365 was that the technology landscape in the housing sector was quite stale. There were…
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A silver bullet from the Open Data Forum
What happens when you have a conversation about how technology and data could be the ‘silver bullet’ to the many challenges and hurdles faced in social housing? The answer is a small and committed group of individuals from housing providers, government, local authorities and consultancies who have formed to champion the ideas of collaboration, transparency…
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Under pressure… How technology can help
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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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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