In this interview, Anchor Group’s head of procurement, Iain Dawson, and Science Warehouse’s business development manager, Richard Porter discuss their joint implementation of a new e-procurement and e-invoicing system. What were the reasons behind Anchor’s transformational change? The driving factors were to make buying easier for our staff, reduce the internal costs of our ordering…
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A toolkit for achieving digital business transformation
Many consider leadership to be the management of change and the social housing sector is certainly undergoing rapid change. So how should business leaders navigate and guide their organisation through this change process? A major survey of senior executives in late 2016 revealed that, for most, digitisation was the key, moving services online so that…
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Integration… The key to introducing new technologies
The technology revolution that has transformed the operating efficiency and productivity of social housing continues to make a significant difference. However, identifying which technologies will have the most positive impact is harder to predict. Nigel Rees, joint managing director of Aareon, believes that integration holds the key; here’s why… I’m always fascinated by how new…
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Fixed assets and component accounting
If you’ve not already been put off by the title of this piece, you may well be a finance person rather than an asset management or IT person. It’s a sad truth that, for asset managers, component accounting is often an inconvenience they would rather ignore or be invisible and, even for finance people, it’s…
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Building GDPR into social housing
As most housing professionals are (or should be) aware, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force from May 2018, and housing providers should be paying particular attention to what it is and what it could mean for them. Housing providers hold a great deal of personal tenant data. From name, date of…
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Asset management systems – A different perspective
The most common complaint we hear from customers is that they don’t use their asset management (AM) software because it’s too complicated and doesn’t actually provide them with the information they need anyway. Too many of the systems out there are developed by large IT companies with highly-skilled developers but with no understanding of the…
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