The internet of things offers significant opportunities for improving the lives of those in social housing and for service provision. The University of Bristol, Royal Borough of Greenwich, Believe Housing, Bromford Labs, Homelync and Bristol City Council’s City Innovation Team are conducting research to ensure our work is ethically sound and leads to beneficial outcomes…
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Community Response – A positive legacy of coronavirus
How the concept of ‘neighbours helping neighbours’, underpinned by scalable technology, has helped over 5,000 vulnerable residents… In the middle of March this year, I received a call from a prominent local politician, asking if I could spare a few hours to attend a meeting. He wanted me to advise on how the local community…
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Accelerating remote working in exceptional circumstances
In late February 2020, things began to change very quickly for us due to the onset of coronavirus. CHP already had plans to implement remote working for some of its customer-facing teams, but not for at least six months – that all changed in the space of a week! After appraising the situation, we sought…
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The secrets to successful remote teams
Through our experience of setting up customers for remote working and managing our own remote teams, we’ve found that there is one critical ingredient to success. Most organisations have embraced software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms, so accessing systems remotely isn’t usually the biggest issue. No, the biggest issue is maintaining communication, particularly non-verbal communication, between team members….
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Business continuity and mobile working
Mobile working has been in the consciousness of most housing providers for some time but has often taken a back seat to grass roots, community initiatives instead. In the past few weeks, these priorities have been turned on their heads as our physical world has given way to a digital one almost overnight. The necessity…
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The new norm, for now…
In the 18 months I’ve been with Catalyst, the organisation and technology have both undergone a huge amount of change. From having 240 hours of downtime on the telephony system in 12 months, to failing SANs four years behind patching cycles and non-redundant networking, we had to devise and deliver a major foundational change programme…
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