As we’ve reported throughout this issue of Housing Technology, our impression is that most housing providers, IT suppliers and their staff are coping admirably well with the impact of coronavirus on their operations. Housing providers’ widespread adoption over the past few years of web-based business applications and cloud/hosted IT services has meant that they have…
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Editor's Notes
Tough times & sharing your experiences
These are incredibly difficult times, and both our personal and working lives are set to be extraordinarily different for at least the next few months. There will be many challenges ahead, but together we can help to build resilience and support each other in our respective endeavours. We saw the strength that housing providers can…
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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…
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The show must go on…
We’ve started in earnest on the production of the Housing Technology 2020 conference and as part of our background activities, it’s been interesting to look back to see how the focus and themes of the conference have changed since the first one in 2010 – those themes are a good barometer and bellwether for the…
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Building from strong foundations
As the saying goes, “good houses are built on strong foundations.” The same rationale applies to housing providers’ myriad plans for digital transformation. Digital transformation means different things to different people, ranging from the wholesale replacement of entire IT infrastructures and applications through to merely ‘reskinning’ existing websites. However, what most digital transformation projects have…
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Widening your horizons
After the recent Housing Technology 2019 conference at the beginning of March, a number of new trends are emerging that apply to most housing providers and almost all software suppliers to the social housing sector. Decoupling applications – Housing providers are beginning to accept that their myriad business applications (even their relatively new, web-based services)…
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