If you have just started on the path or already crossed the bridge to merge, then your data may be at risk. There are lots of critical and important activities in the merging process ranging from the companies’ legal structures and senior management appointments to extensive dialogue with customers, lenders and suppliers, and much more…
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Benchmarking – The importance of efficiency
Benchmarking is important to compare performance and review efficiency; it enables comparisons to be drawn between you and similar organisations. Using benchmarking to drill into the strengths and weaknesses of your organisation enables smarter decision making, improved efficiency and enhances lean processes by reducing anything that is not adding value. Within the social housing sector,…
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ForViva’s 60% infrastructure cost cuts with Quadris
ForViva’s investment in a Dell XC hyper-converged Nutanix platform supplied and supported by Quadris has been a key enabler of their significant recent growth and transformed application performance. Customer profile Established in June 2015, ForViva has brought together City West Housing Trust, Villages Housing Association and construction company ForWorks under a group structure. The group…
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Faster and cheaper by going IT alone
Paradigm is one of the leading housing providers in the South East of England, managing over 14,000 homes across 33 UK local authorities. When we started over 20 years ago, we already knew that we would have to build a number of systems in-house because, as the first large-scale voluntary transfer (LSVT) in the country,…
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Investing in new technology?
Rooftop Housing’s investment in a technologically-innovative, customer-focused IT system proved to be the perfect opportunity to review procurement best practice, before negotiations had even begun. Having been instructed to advise them on their contract with their IT supplier, we started the process by considering which key issues needed to be resolved before the contract discussions…
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Monitoring the potential of assisted living
In an article earlier this year, England’s chief nursing officer, Professor Jane Cummings, wrote about the move from self-care to supported self-care. Self-care can mean a variety of things to different people of varying ages and with disparate needs and challenges, whether you are monitoring your fitness and diet or, at the other end of…
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