The organisation of today is a complex animal, and housing providers are no exception to that rule. Demand for efficient, modern and transparent operating models that can cope with near-unprecedented levels of volatility and uncertainty are the order of the day. Can we rely on traditional methods to navigate our way out of the mire,…
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Contributed Articles
I must go down to HP again, to the lonely PC on standby…
Barry Alford, head of ICT at Paragon Community Housing, explains how the housing provider carried out a live simulation of a full ‘DR day’ to test its business continuity strategy and what it learned from the experience. It was in one of our senior management team meetings (in December 2012) that I presented a DR…
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Social housing 3.0: the internet of things
The social housing sector has embraced the internet’s ability to deliver efficiencies and enhance the experience of tenants. Web 1.0 saw housing groups establish websites that made details conveniently accessible to tenants online. Web 2.0 brought social media and applications to housing, along with interactive forms allowing tenants to carry out tasks such as making…
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Building the connected social home
Intelligent heating systems like Google’s Nest have launched the internet of things into the mainstream but how can this technology be harnessed to transform service delivery for housing providers and how can we build the connected social home? Back in June 2015, the Connected Home Consortium (a partnership of 15 housing providers interested in IoT…
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22nd century repairs – A personal view
What will housing providers’ repairs service look like in the future? This article (the second of two; see September 2015 edition of Housing Technology for the first article) from Chris Potter, ROCC’s Uniclass director, is his personal view of some very probable scenarios and others a little bit more fanciful, looking at what a 22nd-century…
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Big data in housing
Not so long ago, the biggest challenge for asset managers was capturing data. Obtaining a clear up-to-date picture of the condition of an estate, particularly gaining access into homes, was a hugely difficult task and lifecycle planning, as I well know from my days managing multi-million pound PFI budgets, often relied on good judgement and…
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