The chances are that you’re aware of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), which have been a topic of much debate in EU Parliament over the past five years. The GDPR replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and has been constructed to harmonise data privacy laws across the EU, protecting the data privacy of every…
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How Agile built success at Your Homes Newcastle
Adopting the principles encompassed by the Agile business philosophy has helped Your Homes Newcastle improve productivity, create a more positive culture and speed up delivery times, explains Geof Ellingham, the organisation’s former head of IT and now director of the Agile Business Consortium. By way of background, Your Homes Newcastle is responsible for managing homes…
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Can the housing sector ever see residents as customers?
In this connected age, customers across all sectors expect more than they ever have before from the services they consume. For businesses, this presents a challenge in meeting with ever-changing demands in order to secure long-term sustainability. This applies to the housing sector as much as it does to the retail or entertainment sectors. Meeting…
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Emerging technologies in social housing: bots and beyond
With the technology now surrounding us resembling gadgets from the pages and images of science fiction, it can sometimes be too easy to dismiss these technologies as fads or ‘gadgets for geeks’. Instead of passing on these technologies, shouldn’t we pause to see what these innovative products and applications could introduce into the social housing…
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Housing IT executives meet to develop next-generation SharePoint solutions
Greensquare’s group head of ICT, Rob Fletcher, reports on how a group of housing IT professionals met in London at the beginning of April with TSG at their London offices to discuss the integration of Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint Online with housing management systems. The session was attended by representatives from GreenSquare Housing, Sentinel Housing,…
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Estate regeneration is part of the 21st century – let’s make it feel that way
Commonplace was recently included in the London Mayor’s good practice guide for estate regeneration, which gives us genuine pride. But more importantly, it indicates that times really are changing. More and more frequently I hear acknowledgement and even genuine enthusiasm from councils, property developers and housing providers about the need for communities to be at…
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