I recently asked a housing client to tell me how they planned to define ‘digital transformation’ to their team. Somewhat unsurprisingly, the answer was along the lines of, “It’s about using IT to make improvements to services and systems”. After a pause, I went on to draw out so much more than this from their…
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Creating a customer-centric future
In partnership with Housing Technology, Rackspace recently held a dinner for senior housing IT executives. During the evening, the conversations were centred around a wholesale move towards digital, for both tenants and housing providers. There’s an understanding across the sector that organisations must engage with tenants in new and modern ways. This has led to…
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Solid foundations for procurement decisions
Having spent over 22 years with EY (formerly Ernst & Young), advising on acquisitions, flotations, privatisations, business and share valuations and business investments in general, I have come across numerous reasons for investment, some of which were objective financial or strategic targets and some which were merely idiosyncratic whims of powerful proponents. My team’s role…
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Understanding your tenants to beat the UC challenge
Local authorities and housing providers must use data to provide a faster and more efficient service for the tenants they serve, says Gary Bell, Civica’s executive director for managed services. Universal credit, the government’s ‘flagship reform’ of the benefits system, was introduced to make welfare payments easier for local authorities and housing providers. It was…
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When is an internet connection not an internet connection?
I want to tell you about my last 24 hours on earth. I don’t mean that something terrible is going to happen to me tomorrow; what I mean is, let me tell you about the 24 hours I have just experienced and, specifically, my digital experience. 0645 – The alarm on my phone goes off….
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The empty call centre
Channel shift has been a hot topic in housing for a few years now and certainly for us IT suppliers, it has been a buzz phrase that we’ve all been riding on the back of for a while. Channel shift is essentially all about trying to get tenants online and reduce the number of times…
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