News & Blog
News, Articles and Opinion from the Vantage team
Five Golden Rules of Procurement
What can you do when you discover you are not getting best value from your suppliers? Our Operations Director Rob Bryan takes a look at the five golden rules of procurement.
PI Club Open House Event 3rd March
A sector event specifically for Senior Finance Directors Save the date: 3rd March 2020 to see how the new look Performance Improvement Club could support you. The event will give you an opportunity to meet with other strategic directors from across the country to...
20:20 Vision: Sector Readies itself for Regulators Challenge
We facilitated a successful roundtable event at Midland Hearts offices with leading CEOs from across the social housing sector. We were joined by Fiona MacGregor, CEO of RSH, who shared the regulators perspective and emphasised the need for the sector to tell a...
Join our Growing Team as a Business Consultant
Are you skilled in business change? Do you have a passion for helping organisations improve their efficiency, effectiveness and the services they deliver? Due to ongoing growth, we are recruiting to expand our consultancy team, this role will be vital to support,...
Launch Event: Operations & Customer Experience Forum
Join us on 30th January for the launch of the Strategic Operations & Customer Experience Directors forum. The event will give you an opportunity to meet with other Directors in Operations, Transformation, Housing and Customer Experience to learn and share...
2019 A Year in Review
As I sit down to write my annual round up and look ahead to 2020, I have been reflecting back on our 20th year in business working with some of the leading Social Housing providers. Highlights of 2019 We have continued to add to our portfolio of clients in the...
The Golden Thread of Success: Benefits Realisation in Social Housing
At a recent workshop, we asked housing sector delegates to score themselves out of five for tracking and evidencing the benefits of change programmes. They all scored themselves below average, particularly within digital transformation programmes. For example many...
R&M Forum Member Spotlight: Russell Thompson, Thirteen Group
As we turn the spotlight onto our members, we spoke to Russell Thompson, Executive Director of Property Services at Thirteen Group, to discuss sector challenges and why he joined the Strategic Assets and Repairs & Maintenance Forum. What was the main driver for...
20:20 Vision – CEOs Roundtable Event
This event has now taken place. To access the summary and the slides from the event, please click here to access the page. An unmissable sector roundtable specifically for CEOs. Save the date: 21st January 2020 for a CEOs roundtable event hosted by Ruth Cooke,...
Transformation Bite Back: Effective Initiative Prioritisation
Mergers, transformation plans and amalgamations can often mean initiative overload strikes a housing provider. Add to this the digitalisation agenda, process automation techniques or just a desire to shake up the status quo, and it can be difficult to prioritise....