The world is rich with original ideas. After all, we are creative beings by nature. So, why is true innovation such a rarely found gem? Perhaps it’s what I call the ‘innovation gap’. If we understand innovation to be the meeting of original creative thought and focused action, without the action, ideas remain just that…
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069 - May 2019
Thorngate Living selects HomeMaster as its new HMS
Designer Software has also signed up Thorngate Living, a Gosport-based provider of assisted living and independent care, for its HomeMaster software. Anne Taylor, CEO, Thorngate Living, said, “What we like is HomeMaster’s flexibility and ease of use, and for us, one system provides everything we need for both our sheltered housing and care homes. With…
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Popstar turned curate turned housing patron…
Housing Technology interviewed Reverend Richard Coles, the self-styled ‘popstar turned curate’, patron of Wellingborough Homes and one of the keynote speakers at March’s Housing Technology 2019 conference, about parish life, social housing and IT. As a parish priest and BBC broadcaster how do you juggle life? With varying degrees of success! I’m a ‘half-time’ vicar…
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ExtraCare selects Orchard to support OpenAccounts
The ExtraCare Charitable Trust has chosen Orchard Information Systems to support its OpenAccounts finance software. Paul Todman, financial planning accountant, Extra Care Charitable Trust, said, “Orchard proved its credibility by helping us with a sales ledger problem which took less than a week for us to solve with Orchard support; this had been outstanding for…
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High hopes for low-code projects
Any public-sector organisations providing a service, especially those for which people have to pay, such as council tax or parking permits, are expected to provide a seamless, digital solution for technology-savvy users. And as with many areas of the public sector, housing providers are under increasing pressure to meet the challenges and opportunities presented by…
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Mobile surveying – More than just data capture
In my other life as the owner of a surveying company, we have completed a lot of stock condition surveys over the past 15 years; probably around 150,000 surveys spread across every conceivable property type, and from remote island communities to dense, city-centre developments. During that time, our methods and processes have developed to keep…
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