You could practically hear the sigh of relief as the 3rd May deadline passed for registered providers to submit their bids to the Homes and Communities Agency for grant funding under the Affordable Housing Programme 2011-2015 Framework. Registered Providers have had their heads down working up their offers to the HCA since the launch of…
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Tribal Consulting
Capita buys Tribal’s housing division
Tribal Group has sold its health and government consulting businesses, which include its housing division, to Capita Group for just under £16 million. In the consolidated accounts for Tribal to the end of 2010, the health and government businesses had combined gross assets of almost £72 million and combined operating losses of £2.7 million. Following…
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Is your consultant really necessary?
Consultancies and systems integrators are widely used by social housing organisations for both business transformation projects and tactical IT initiatives. Housing Technology interviewed a panel of experts from organisations specialising in the housing sector about the merits of consultants and systems integrators, and how best to use them. First of all, it is instructive to…
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Acquisitions – good or bad for the industry?
With the planned acquisition of IBS OpenSystems by Capita and the earlier acquisition of Northgate by US-buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (see the May edition of Housing Technology), are these good for social housing organisations? On the one hand, the new owners of IBS and Northgate are both likely to have greater funds to support…
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Good housekeeping for Decent Homes
A recent report from Tribal Consulting has stressed the importance for social housing organisations to adopt good programme management systems to manage the work required to meet the requirements of the Government’s Decent Homes initiative. The ‘Current approaches to managing housing improvement programmes’ report produced by Tribal on behalf of Delcam PS-Team looks at what…
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