Despite wider economic gloom, our informal and naturally rather subjective view is that the housing sector, and in particular its technology infrastructure, is pretty buoyant. One reason for this is that there is always demand for housing, with this obviously increasing when the economy declines. At risk of going a little ‘off piste’, a good…
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Editor’s Notes: Whose bin is it anyway?
The government’s not-so-united stance on how public services should be delivered and the degree to which the private sector should be involved is a good catalyst to stimulate the debate on the advantages and disadvantages of shared services. While the government may be scaling back its plans to privatise (in effect) many public-sector services out…
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Editor’s Notes: Head in the clouds
While cloud computing has been around for some time (anyone remember the plethora of application service providers at the end of the last millenium?), it has taken some time to become mainstream, partly because of a lack of widespread internet connectivity and partly to do with concerns about security, service levels and, to a lesser…
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Editor’s Notes: Predicting the future
As we start a new year as well as the fourth year of publishing Housing Technology, we are going to stick our necks out and predict some macro-trends in housing that we believe housing providers will see over the next 2-3 years. Less political support: The election of the Coalition government will mark the start…
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Editor’s Notes: Protect your turf
Budget cuts have either already arrived for some of you or are imminent for everyone else. The question is therefore how best to protect and maintain existing IT budgets or at least minimise the effect of spending reductions on IT services. With that in mind, IT departments need to identify core IT services that ‘keep…
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Editor’s Notes: Still talking the talk?
We make no apologies for again devoting several pages of Housing Technology to the subject of digital exclusion. Housing providers which profess to having their tenants’ best interests at heart and claim to focus on their well-being need to think about how digital inclusion could transform their tenants’ lives. Digital inclusion is certainly not the…
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