Simon Penaluna, assistant IT director at Peaks & Plains Housing Trust, explains how the housing provider has brought about a revolution in arrears management. Its in-house developed system, which won ‘Most Innovative IT System’ earlier this year at the Housing Innovation Awards, incorporates original thinking, improved performance and value for money. The fact that its…
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Contributed Articles
Will the new data protection rules expose your insecurities?
From Paul Wood, assistant director of Montal IT Consulting. A survey done by the UK Information Commissioners office in May 2013 among 506 staff who described themselves as having responsibility for Data Protection showed that not one of them could accurately describe the effect the new European legislation would have on the current Data Protection…
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Risk or no risk? – We decide
From Mandy Dunstan, head of business transformation at The Barnet Group. As part of Housing Technology’s series of articles from The Barnet Group and their IT transformation, this issue we’re looking at how the housing provider deals with risk. It’s impossible to embark on an IT transformation project of this size without factoring in risk….
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Is universal credit changing the housing technology landscape?
From Mark Summers, head of technology sales for JMC IT. Universal credit remains in its relative infancy, moving from a pilot phase to a staged UK-wide rollout in April 2014. Yet it is already clear that welfare reform is changing the country’s social housing landscape for good and, according to some, not necessarily for the…
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The return of the machine for living
From Matt Leach, CEO of HACT. In the early 20th century, architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, wrote about the house as ‘a machine for living’. At the time, influenced by the development of new building materials and in particular reinforced concrete, steel and glass, this expressed itself through bleak visions of grey…
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Learning to fly at Housing Technology 2014
From Tony Smith, an independent housing IT consultant at Acutance Consulting. Blog: tonysmiththathousingitguy.blogspot.co.uk This is a slightly abridged version of a posting written by Tony Smith, an independent housing IT consultant at Acutance Consulting, on his ‘Tony Smith: That Housing IT Guy’ blog (details below) following last month’s Housing Technology 2014 conference. It didn’t have…
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