An office move last year saw the start of a more agile way of working for MHS Homes’ staff, with new mobile technology added to support the initiative. After we reduced our office space from three floors to two by introducing hot-desking, our ICT team enabled flexible working practices through the introduction of mobile devices…
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Has the digital pen run out of ink?
Glyn Cunnah, head of business development at Footprint Solutions, discusses why the digital pen is now missing the mark for mobile workers Any organisation that employs a mobile workforce is looking for two things: cost effectiveness and remote access to real-time information. For decades, the digital pen has enhanced the standard of service for staff…
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Seeing CCTV in a new light
James Wickes, CEO of Cloudview, looks at the impact cloud technology is having on traditional CCTV for housing providers. As both observers and the observed, we all have a ‘view’ on what CCTV is. We’ll have seen the grainy, frame-by-frame footage, often used as evidence against criminal or disruptive behaviour. We’ll have noticed the cumbersome…
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Asset tracking is not just for Christmas, Easter or Year-End
From IT equipment, including laptops and mobile phones, to furniture, fixtures and fittings, assets within housing providers are on the move. It may sound like a scene from Dr. Who, but the reality is that the assets owned by housing providers are not only deployed within the physical boundaries of head offices but increasingly in…
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Measuring IT – Are you looking in the right direction
I have recently been thinking about the sorts of performance measures that get used in the housing sector and the way that IT systems are used to generate management information. I have come to the conclusion that much of that management information probably at best represents something different to what most senior managers and board…
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Inspiring change in social housing
What does it take to get the people who work in social housing really inspired? Well, at the Housing Technology 2015 conference this month, Barry Marlow and I both had a really good go at it. Barry is one of those charismatic, dyed in the wool housing types who work with housing providers to help…
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