Most of us will be familiar with the situation where, in any business change project, the focus shifts from delivering the benefits on which the business case was built to figuring out how to implement the selected software. This is a perilous moment. When emphasis switches from thinking about desired outcomes to the nuts and…
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Make your residents happy – Find out what they hate…
Trevor Hampton, director of housing solutions at NEC Software Solutions, explores the power of finding out what people don’t like. Do you dread phoning your energy, phone or broadband provider to ask a question, make a complaint or raise a concern? Is your expectation that you will be stuck waiting for your call to be…
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Lean and continuous improvement
In December 2021, One Housing joined Riverside Group as a subsidiary, making it one of the largest housing providers in the UK. Danny Nicklen and Roch Ottaway-Schollij share some tools and techniques they used to successfully support organisational change. When we talk about digital change and transformation, we often label activities as IT, business or…
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Outsourcing and ‘the great resignation’
In the wake of the pandemic, a new phenomenon has manifested as people reassess their work/life balance, dubbed by the media as ‘the great resignation’. With many employees choosing to resign from their jobs, the great resignation means that businesses are experiencing a significant skills shortage. A recent survey suggested that almost a third of…
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Collaborating with Gen Z
The way we work has changed. While calling this new reality a ‘new normal’ is a cliché, we can’t ignore how the pandemic acted as a catalyst for change. Flexible or hybrid working, once an added benefit, is now expected by most employees. In particular, the differing priorities of the younger generation of workers are…
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Agile vs. waterfall – A choice between flexibility and control?
Traditional waterfall-based projects promise successful outcomes through meticulous planning and tight control of the scope and risks, but it’s a promise that isn’t always fulfilled. The famous quote that, “No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy” neatly sums up the problem with waterfall in situations where the detail of requirements isn’t entirely clear…
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