In the housing sector, the past few years have seen some significant ‘black swan’ moments, causing many to radically rethink how they do what they do and change their strategic direction. Rent reductions, Grenfell, regulation, digitisation, new technologies and so on – each of these is disruptive in its own right but when concurrent, they…
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Itica
Itica appoints new directors
Itica has recently appointed Martin Joy and John Doughty as new directors of the company. Joy has been a consultant for Itica for a number of years and previously held CIO and IT director positions in a number of blue-chip organisations. Doughty has over 20 years’ experience in the social housing sector and was previously…
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A single IT platform or best-of-breed?
Housing Technology interviewed Itica’s director, Neville Brown, on the merits of best-of-breed applications vs. enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in social housing. What’s the background to the single platform vs. best-of-breed debate? The housing sector is undergoing significant change at a time when the options for delivering systems are increasing, therefore it’s right that housing…
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Managing supplier performance
Demonstrating IT services’ value-for-money is now firmly on everyone’s agenda. I attended an excellent session at this year’s Housing Technology conference where the finance director of a London housing association provided great insight into what is important at an executive level; one of the key points he made was, “How will IT, and the suppliers…
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