It’s time the housing sector raised its game on data, creating its own shared big data resource, pooling data resources from across the sector for shared insights, data-led innovation and the development of new tools. But it shouldn’t stop at existing sources of data, and if we’re going to make the most if it, we…
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Contributed Articles
Generating insight through big data… And how polyglot persistence can help
MapR’s chief data engineer, Michael Hausenblas, looks at how organisations approach the task of generating insights and how emerging technologies can break the notion of one-hat-fits-all relational databases. Do the following examples sound familiar? You set off in your car to the airport to catch a flight and run into road works on the motorway…
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Futures Housing and Orchard – Conversations on customers’ terms
A project to harness the power of text messaging to engage better with residents has resulted in a housing group partnering with a software provider on a bespoke solution. Gavin Hitchcock, head of ICT at East Midlands-based Futures Housing Group explains how they did it. Channel shift is a hot topic for housing providers. Moving…
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Unlocking the power in resident databases
Tenant profiling, communications, preferences and participation is a recurring theme for many housing associations, RSLs and ALMOs. With vast amounts of valuable information in housing providers’ computer systems, harnessing the power that is contained within resident databases is key to the successful implementation and reporting of many of the wider housing initiatives being implemented today….
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The road to true mobility
Mat Ashmore, head of ICT at North Lincolnshire Homes explains about how making the workforce truly mobile has revolutionised the way staff work. By using technology, we have been able to create a virtual world where people can work from wherever they are, removing the need to be office-based full-time but still being in contact…
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Workplace transformation & welfare reform
Jacqui Stoggall, director of consultancy at Sovereign Business Integration Group, outlines the importance of workplace transformation programmes to deliver the new strategic vision and mitigate risk in a challenging business environment. From the introduction of universal credit to the decline in government funding, unreliable income streams are fast becoming one of the most critical issues…
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