“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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T for technology or team?
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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Keeping housing IT projects on track
I should like to start off by saying that I don’t think there is anything special about housing IT projects. I don’t believe that IT projects in the housing sector fail any more frequently than they do in any other sector. I would also like to state that I don’t think that IT projects fail…
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If nothing goes wrong, you’re not innovating
‘Digital transformation’ has existed as a mainstream term in the IT sector for a long time, and before that, the phrase used was ‘channel shift’. Both are terms for a project or strategy taken on by an organisation to change the way either it provides services to customers or how the staff interact into a…
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