Twenty years ago while publishing directories of IT events just as PCs were becoming ubiquitous in every business, I posited the idea that for all the myriad courses covering IT productivity, time management, how to use the latest breed of desktop and business applications and so on, most companies would be better served if they…
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Editor’s Notes: SMAC your IT up
This issue has a strong focus on the subject of big data (see the feature on page), but as the article mentions, big data should really be seen as part of the bigger picture around digital convergence. If you haven’t come across the acronym SMAC yet, you certainly will soon. SMAC covers social, mobile, analytics…
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Editor’s Notes: Demonstrating IT value
Compared with January 2008 and our first issue of Housing Technology, the role of the IT departments has changed almost beyond all recognition. In the last five or six years, most housing providers’ boards have finally understood the importance of IT and appreciate how it can be used to transform their business operations, financial performance…
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Editor’s Notes: No escape from universal credit
Despite the patchy start to many of the universal credit pilot projects (see page five), welfare reform is going ahead and it does look likely that universal credit will be introduced, albeit in a rather longer timescale than originally planned and despite reported glitches in the DWP’s IT systems. Since there’s no escape from the…
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Editor’s Notes: Reviewing your IT suppliers
Last month, we published our ‘Review of IT Suppliers 2013’ report. The report comprises the views of over 200 senior IT executives from across the UK, based around 20+ main technology areas, and includes almost 1,000 individual ratings of IT suppliers’ performance. This report is arguably the first and most comprehensive of its kind and…
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Editor’s Notes: Extending the UC pilots
At the time of writing, the government has just announced that it is extending its pilot schemes for universal credit by six months. On the one hand, this is an encouraging sign that the Department for Work and Pensions wants to get the right systems in place before the widespread adoption of direct payments to…
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