Data, when put to good use, can completely revolutionise the way a housing provider works. At Yorkshire Housing, we’re capturing and using data in new ways to transform our organisation from one that is reactive to one that is proactive. I started my career in the manufacturing sector where one of my first projects was…
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All-change with technology for tenant relationships
The other day I read a comment from a colleague about a medium-sized housing customer of ours who was considering at board level whether they would still need a physical office after the current pandemic. This surprised me at first; the housing sector has traditionally been absolutely office-based and also resistant to the idea that…
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Thrive Homes’ social hack to better security
As head of IT at Thrive Homes, John Stenton shares his thoughts on why he believes ‘people power’ is key to strengthening housing providers’ security. Let’s call her Gladys. She’s a lovely lady, one of the first in the office every morning. She is dedicated and hardworking, and she always has a smile and wants…
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Your work, your way at RHP
Over the past couple of years, we’ve been working hard to enable greater flexibility across RHP – a big part of which has been creating better opportunities for remote working. This has been achieved through our ‘Your work, your way’ flexible working programme, which was designed to empower people to get the most out of…
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Migrating from seven HMSs to one…
Managing the project of implementing one housing management system to replace seven is challenging. Add working through a pandemic at the same time, and you have the ingredients for some very interesting days ahead… You will all be familiar with this story. A service with dated systems built up over the years without any proper…
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When buildings report on themselves
IoT-based compliance and safety The decade of smart buildings is upon us as digital innovation transforms the spaces we live and work in through an ever-expanding suite of technologies, and with it comes the solution to our compliance headaches. Smart buildings promise to make it all simple with IoT and cloud, make it all cheaper…
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