Midland Heart’s director of IT, Kathryn Downs, ORM’s founder and managing partner, Peter Gough, and Rackspace’s senior business development manager, Leon Blakely, explain how embracing new technologies could be a game changer for housing providers. Midland Heart’s Kathryn Downs said, “The biggest challenges in the social housing sector are an increasing pressure to build affordable…
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How humans, Alexa and robots can improve lives
If somebody said to you five years ago, that artificial intelligence (AI) would now be making inroads into the housing sector, would you have believed it or simply dismissed it? Looking at AI from a more general perspective, at the turn of the millennium, I wonder how many people truly conceived it as being possible…
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Digital transformation – The challenges and opportunities
Citizens have come to expect a certain level of digital interaction with all organisations, including public sector ones. From council tax payments to parking permits, refuse collection to street lighting, public sector organisations interact with the majority of the population in many different ways. As digital technologies continue to permeate our daily lives, the challenges…
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Communications for innovation and growth
The terms ‘digital transformation’, ‘customer experience’ and ‘user adoption’ are hot topics in the housing sector at the moment, and for good reason given the rapidly changing landscape. It’s pleasing to see that traditional ICT departments are now rebranding into digital teams working collaboratively with colleagues from housing and contact centres. There’s been a considerable…
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How well do you know GDPR?
We all think we know how GDPR works, but do we really? ParaDPO’s co-founder Clifford Barton explains how when running GDPR workshops and tutorials, arguably the best approach to initiating the uninitiated into new territory is to make it fun and ease them in, rather than confront them with a barrage of information. On the…
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Getting tenants to help themselves
Self-service is now an integral part of our daily lives. Self-service check-outs at supermarkets are second nature and in banking, self-service apps are ubiquitous. It’s also commonplace to book medical appointments online and to receive texts reminding you to attend. Naturally, this sets a marvellous precedent for social housing. There have been many technology advances…
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