• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Housing Technology logo

Housing Technology

Housing | IT | Telecoms | Business | Ecology

  • Free Subscription
  • Search Archive
  • Home
  • Research
  • Magazine
  • Events
  • Recruitment
  • Blog
  • On Demand
  • Contact
Home / Free Subscriber Access / Moving fast & saving money

Moving fast & saving money

From our recent ‘Connected Communities 2019’ event at the BT Tower (see page 42), which covered some pretty diverse business and technology areas, we’ve compiled an interesting and consistent group of pointers around the successful delivery of business-related IT projects.

  • Speed – Aim to move fast and nimbly with new projects, with an emphasis on the rapid creation of minimum viable products (MVPs) that can be tested, reviewed and refined (and where necessary, scrapped). The focus on web-based, modular IT services should encourage a ‘move fast and break things’ mindset.
  • Cost and procurement – The government’s CCS frameworks cover almost every category of IT and business applications that housing providers could need. Frameworks are generally faster and cheaper than OJEU-style procurements and what you might lose in terms of bespoke fitting to your needs (the 80/20 rule), you’ll gain in terms of agility, speed and cost. Furthermore, a ‘capped time and materials’ basis for new developments gives you more control than a fixed-cost approach and greater ability to evolve your needs throughout the project (c.f. MVPs, above).
  • Diversity – Project teams comprising members with diverse backgrounds have been repeatedly shown to deliver the best results across criteria such as innovation, time and cost. Aside from the moral and ethical aspects of pursuing an equality agenda, you will achieve better results by actively seeking out diversity.
  • Culture and demographics – You know that the demographics of your tenants are changing, so too are the demographics of your staff and colleagues, therefore take a look at the culture of how, when and where your staff want to work. While your new cohort of workers might prefer WhatsApp instead of email, they still have the same aspirations from their careers as older generations, as well as being more tech-savvy – so reassess which technology tools best suit them to achieve your corporate objectives without blindly clinging to the vestiges of an outdated working culture.
  • Data, data, data – The most brilliantly executed project is doomed if your underlying data sources are inaccurate and inconsistent; or in other words, don’t put old wine in new bottles because it’ll still taste horrid.

See More On:

  • Topic: General News
  • Publication Date: 071 - September 2019
  • Type: Editor's Notes

Primary Sidebar

Most Recent Articles

  • Free cyber-defence tools from NCSC
  • Learning from history
  • Grand Union Housing gets connected with Aico HomeLink
  • The silences in the system: Predicting and preventing damp and mould
  • Looking back and to the future: Cyberthreats in social housing
  • Hyde signs repairs contract with Totalmobile
  • Fuelling high performance automation
  • Morgan Sindall’s Carbon Zero decarbonisation tool
  • An ethical approach to arrears
  • Housing and the ever-evolving workplace
  • Supporting residents with home safety risks
  • Less innovation & more service design at RHP
  • Ateb Group outsources IT help desks to Central Networks
  • Capital Letters partners with Evo Digital to tackle homelessness
  • Calico appoints M247 for digital transformation
  • 24/7 care requires 24/7 technology
  • Govtech trends for 2023
  • Are you ready for business process automation?
  • Lincoln council moves to the cloud with Civica
  • Why do IT business improvement projects fail?
  • Flagship and Ebrik launch augmented reality app
  • Following the golden thread
  • Setting the standard for carbon-monoxide protection
  • The business case for data
  • Digital twins – When, not if…
  • Using data to build communities
  • The cyber-security jigsaw’s missing piece – Managed detection & response
  • Cyber-security challenges in housing
  • Digitalising retrofits with SHDF & HomeLink
  • Tips for improving care and support

Footer

Housing Technology
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Contact
  • Free Subscription
  • Book an event
  • Blog
  • Search All Articles
  • Research
  • Update Your Subscription
  • Privacy Policy

Welcome to the housing Technology – Trusted Information For Business Professionals in HOusing

Housing Technology is the leading technology information service for the UK housing sector and local governments. We have always believed in the fundamental importance of how the UK’s social housing providers use technology to improve their tenants’ lives.

Subscribe to Housing Technology to gain market-leading research, unsurpassed peer networking opportunities and a greater understanding of your role to transform your business.

Copyright © The Intelligent Business Company 2022 | Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy
Housing Technology is published by the The Intelligent Business Company. A company with limited liability. Registered in England No. 4958057 | Vat Registion No. 833 0069 55.

Registered Business Address: Hoppingwood Farm, Robin Hood Way, London, SW20 0AB | Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8336 2293

htc23 pop banner