Reduced government grants and funding, as well as diminishing private-sector budgets, continue to put the UK housing sector under considerable pressure, with this all being played out against the backdrop of increasingly rigorous regulation. As housing costs and the management of available stock continues to captivate the media, providers in both public and private sectors…
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A week in the life of a housing IT consultant
Work is certainly varied for Jenny Shorter, a senior consultant at IT services firm Sovereign Business Integration Group, who revisits an atypical week at work. I’ve seen a great deal of change in the housing sector. Mostly, it now requires a far more commercially-minded approach than it did when I first joined the sector in…
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The importance of data-driven housing
“One necessary qualification for anyone in management is to stop asking people to explain the ups and downs (day to day, month to month, and year to year) that come from random variation.” Dr Brian Joiner The importance of data and especially its security has come to prominence of late, not just in the housing…
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Women in IT at Flagship Group
Flagship Group is proud to be above the UK national average for the number of female employees working in IT; the seven roles vary from GIS development and infrastructure specialists to business partners. Housing Technology interviewed some of Flagship’s IT team about their roles and women in IT. Starting out in IT Rachael Leeder, an…
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Embracing the digital switchover
By 2025, analogue telephony services will be switched off completely in the UK. While this may sound alarm bells for housing providers who offer telecare systems (such as pendant alarms and pull cords) to their older residents, we believe it represents an opportunity rather than a threat. While we see this date as a deadline…
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Many of you will have seen the headlines on the increasing rise in IT project failures, how project costs overrun by 45 per cent on average and deliver only 56 per cent of the intended benefits*. So, what is IT project success? The fundamentals of project management are time, cost and quality to deliver an…
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