Housing Association updates systems to cut costs

Notting Hill Housing also looks to make efficiecy savings

System should also reduce storage requirements

Notting Hill Housing has updated a £600m property investment programme to improve efficiency and reduce storage requirements.

The housing association hopes the system implemented by business management firm CTSpace, will cut costs and increase productivity.

The system will be used to store and share documents across the supply chain.
‘Benchmarking studies showed we were becoming more expensive than some other associations,’ said Shane Dargue, land manager at Notting Hill Housing.

‘We looked at where we could improve operational costs and productivity, and revising our business processes was a key area that would help. Problem areas included unnecessary replication of information, time wasted searching for information, and retrieving files,' he said.

Dargue says the programme will enable the organisation to create a user-friendly environment and banish the need for client configuration.

‘CTSpace gives us all the off-the-shelf functionality we need now and may do for the future in a very user-friendly environment, so there is no need for client configuration and a greater expectation of user buy-in,’ he said.