When it comes to benefiting from efficiencies gained from developments in technology, housing providers are no strangers to the concept of investing in new equipment to deliver cost savings. Many organisations in this sector have already recognised the need to optimise investment in IT, and this goes hand-in-hand with a growing awareness that the method…
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Contributed Articles
Competitive dialogue – Part two
This is the second in a series of articles from Viridian’s project consultant, John Paul, covering the various stages of a live Competitive Dialogue procurement process. Subsequent articles will track the progress of the project, from its inception through to, we hope, contract signatures. The first article was published in the September 2012 issue of…
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New ways of working and European innovation
Inspired by Housing Technology’s ‘New Way of Working’ event at the BT Tower in June, I want to explore further what opportunities might be waiting to be discovered from looking at Europe and beyond. I decided to do some research and analyse what our foreign partners are doing to tackle their particular social housing issues…
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Augmented reality in housing
We are all familiar with smartphone applications like Tom Tom and Google Maps, and they can be extremely useful tools for navigation around our estates. However, soon it will be possible to use augmented reality (AR) applications to provide estate-based staff with far more information. It is already possible to develop a mobile application that…
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Redefining performance management in housing
Performance management and reporting outputs in social housing have traditionally focused on controlling and delivering executive strategic objectives and generating regulatory returns – the gathering of summarised information to support goal fulfilment and ensuring compliance for the regulator. It has been industry regulation and the nature of social housing funding that has driven this application…
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Competitive dialogue – Tender is the fight
This is the first in a series of articles from Viridian’s project consultant, John Paul, covering the various stages of a live Competitive Dialogue procurement process. Subsequent articles will track the progress of the project, from its inception through to, we hope, contract signatures. I can’t remember when ‘procurement’ replaced ‘purchasing’ in our management vocabulary…
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