Optivo has 45,000 homes. It was founded by the joining of AmicusHorizon and Viridian (both made up of previous mergers and amalgamations). We are about to merge again. This time with the Southern Housing Group (32,000 homes). The presentation covers realisations and lessons learnt over time from previous mergers or stock transfers. It looks at imposing today’s management practices, data requirements and expectations on records accumulated in tranches over time. It asks questions like: if data has been not maintained or kept, what can we do about it; what can we do to prevent mergers causing future data issues.
Speaker(s): Robert Stewart, Head of Design & Development (Technology)