Digital Transformation in 2025 – Stop & think!
The housing sector in 2025 is facing multiple challenges. Now, more than ever, an organisation's decisions will impact its team, reputation and, most importantly, its residents. Proactive planned changes are less costly than reactive poor decisions. In this digital age, organisations nationwide are either implementing or need to prepare for digital transformation. Finding a trusted digital partner to guide you through this journey is essential.
The Golden Thread
I know, I know—you understand the Golden Thread principles Dame Judith defined back in 2018 for the sector to understand it needed to change—but this wasn’t just meant to be a good strategy for High-Rise buildings!
We don’t need legislation and new Acts to define common sense! Bringing a landlords up-to-date and legacy building data and information about its residents together into one digital place is the only accurate way to understand, analyse and maintain Resident and Building Safety and Wellness. Breaking down the departmental and data “silos”, bringing everything together so all stakeholders understand!
Change?
“When digital transformation is done right, it’s like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. However, when done wrong, all you have is a really fast caterpillar.” - George Westerman, MIT.
Change is challenging because people often overestimate the value of what they currently have and do, while underestimating what they might gain by changing things.
Housing providers typically have a wealth of data, but is it relevant, up-to-date, connected and accessible? The buzzword for 2024 was AI, but without high-quality, accurate and relevant data, AI systems become ineffective and nearly impossible to implement.
For the sector to reap future rewards, large-scale data cleansing and digital transformation must be implemented to maximise efficiency and minimise risk. This may cost time and money in the short term, but the ROI will far outweigh the initial investment and most definitely save lives!
If you already know how to do it, what’s holding you back? But this isn’t an easy journey to take. It's not an IT problem; it’s an organisational challenge. There are many sharks in the water that offer assistance for pieces of the overall puzzle, but very few have actually delivered a turn-key solution across the Housing Sector that assists all departments, residents and key stakeholders - time and time again!
Twinnedit's Unique Knowledge & Journey
For 15 years, Deeo has designed and engineered solutions for the places where people live and the vehicles that transport them. In early 2018, whg, an innovative housing association, challenged Deeo to create a solution for integrating resident and building data to enhance safety and well-being. After two years of collaboration with various stakeholders, Deeo launched Twinnedit in January 2020.
Over the next five years, Deeo developed Twinnedit's multi-award-winning in-house team, services, and platform. They can now advise on any stage of your digital transformation, digitally capture any building size, create precise BIM and elevation/floor plans, animations, VR content, and help organisations collate data. Furthermore, they harness AI to save time and unify disconnected data silos into one platform.
New for 2025: A Siemens Partnership
Twinnedit is now a Siemens Partner, allowing it to leverage the full power of Siemens, a global leader in industrial automation and Digital Twin connectivity. This ground-breaking partnership enables organisations to connect any sensor, Building Management System (BMS), fire, and security systems to Twinnedit, providing a new perspective on understanding their buildings and residents in real-time.
Created with & for the Sector
Twinnedit is influenced and guided by an ever-growing steering group comprising of local authorities, housing associations, and private landlords - large and small. The Utopia steering group shares common challenges and advises Twinnedit's development roadmap on future improvements while also sharing best practices among themselves.
With over 750 buildings captured, created, collated, and published in Twinnedit, many of which have had their connected Safety Case Reports produced within the platform, you can be assured that Twinnedit can advise, create, connect, host, and maintain everything needed for your digital journey.
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