Friday 27 August 2021

Reduced to Ashes

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Its good to get exactly what you thought you were procuring. That is very attractive as you are then more likely to be paying what was originally budgeted. That’s not an unreasonable aspiration and one naturally I often find myself working to, in procurements.

I have worked both sides of the fence and I know of many instances of ‘de-scoping’, both positive and negative. In the former, the de-scope may be down to limitations on the client side. Good examples may be unforeseen events (floods, pregnancy, organisation changes like merger etc). These all happen from time to time and often a de-scope, maybe an extension of the project, may well be needed and the sensible option. Often it’s the only option.

Negative de-scoping is when the supplier is forcing a change, for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes valid, most times for some of the following reasons.

Product or module not actually available or fit for purpose. Where software is concerned, this is quite a common one. Have you been sold something that was no where being developed or started and never been finished? If it makes you feel better, this is not an exception, its almost custom and practice! If you cannot find a reference customer running what you are having proposed, its likely you may/will be the guinea pig for this new piece of blue sky development. Or development on a mythical roadmap.

This can be a big surprise if we think we have bought a low-risk solution. Risk is all about your project having the possibility to take way longer (not 12 months, but maybe 2,3,4 years), than anticipated. Also, longer projects are way more expensive and need staff seconded from their day jobs, way longer than originally planned. So they are not often desirable.

What if certain modules or elements are not ready as yet? Well question, how much is missing? If its 10-15%, maybe (if these are not priority items), is perhaps livable. More than that, you need to be evaluating what crumbs you are receiving. Here’s an example. I worked with a client promised a housing system, EDRMS, Mobile working and Self-service portal for residents. While costs were racking up, it was evident that only an aging housing system and EDRMS might be delivered. So, perhaps 40% or less. As could be guessed, the client and their board was less than pleased.

Inevitably, lack of delivery now, can only be more expensive in the future.

There is plenty that can be done early on in a procurement to mitigate this unplanned stuff. Ask the right questions, tie deliverables into payment milestones or significant contract penalties. Certainly, where you can, unsure you are using a Framework contract, or your own for maximum protection.

If in your project, the de-scoping feels like the thin end of the wedge, it’s probably time to call a halt and reassess your options. It should never get to that point, but unfortunately sales people can be over-optimistic, or be less than 100% with the truth. These projects are often recoverable, or sometimes as a Critical Friend I have helped client organisations choose a more effective pathway to a coherent project.

Don’t suffer or de-scope in silence – you and your organisation doesn’t have to!

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Monday 16 August 2021

Together We Are Beautiful

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As the many Social Housing providers, Councils, Contractors or Care & Support providers I work with are aware, I tend to get involved in a whole raft of projects. Sometimes I am the Critical Friend that helps procure the right new right system/application solution. Other times its where organisations have heard from peers of how I have helped recover failed projects/procurements. It’s sad to see in the latter, often a lot of time, public money and energy wasted. My view is that its all generally potentially recoverable. It would be better if it never happened in the first place, of course!

I was chatting this week with an ICT colleague at an organisation this week, who looks after aspects of another linked enterprise. We were talking about how much is often taken on trust in software procurements. They knew the strict methodology I generally use, which clearly identifies ‘what’s there and what’s not’ from tenderers. Organisations new to software procurement often don’t know the core questions to ask or can get blindsided by good sales and little much detail underneath.

Often people in the organisation looking to procure, even if within OJEU (or OJUK I guess after our Brexit), structure a procurement where much is based on ‘how the tenderer might supply x or y’, rather than what’s there right now or not. Where suppliers know they cannot actually supply a big chunk of what’s being asked for, or it might be future development, good sales folk will no doubt reach to play the ‘Partnership Card’. Nothing really as cheesy, as a supplier/tenderer telling you, “We see ourselves as a partner, not a vendor”.

“We will work with you as a ‘unique partnership’ and we will build this together, respecting each other and the buyer having a special position in creating something moulded around your needs. You will be strategic, showcase partner”. Wow that sounds good. Have you ever been offered that?

“Partnership”, is a bit overused during procurement, particularly where there are elements missing.

At one two-day demonstration, for a full new Contractor, Housing Management, Mobile, CRM & Self-service system, one system supplier (I wont be as rude as to name them or my 19k home client in Gods Own County - Yorkshire), banged on about partnership, for a full ten minutes at the intro. So far so good, we soon launched into the demo proper and there was a question about some innovation around supporting my clients Universal Credit customers. The response was swift, “That would be a change request”, from the same Sales Manager that had done the intro.

My response was very swift too, (as soon I could slip a word in edgewise), in asking “Would that be most likely free for us”?

The predictable answer back was, “If that was new functionality, it most likely would be chargeable”.

I replied, “But if we were to be working in that partnership you just outlined ten minutes ago, I would have expected something better. What you could you do for us? Could it be almost free of charge?”. He came back and said, “You must be joking”, or words to that effect. I replied, “Well you started it mate”!

Marriage is often a very common partnership and that one is made legally binding and occasionally, “Til death do us part”. If a supplier is expecting us to trust they will supply the 40%+ of the missing solution needed, “as a partnership”, then lets get it incorporated into a contract too then?

If they are wary of entering into some legal milestones, I would be very concerned and it would look very much like another supplier with a more complete solution, may well better get your project on time, with all the requisite fundamentals supplied on time. Most likely that other supplier option may well be more expensive, although carry much lower risk of non-delivery.

Also, what price expense?

For example, £80k (for example), may well sound a lot more to pay upfront, but what if it prevented 18 months of additional delay, that prevented 12 staff not being able to do their jobs efficiently for over a year? That cost may well easily exceed the £80k, plus extra admin possibly needed to fill in the gaps. You are maybe beginning to see the dangers of (non-contractual) software supplier partnerships.

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Monday 9 August 2021

Open the Door to Self-Service

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I get involved in a lot of Social Housing digital plans and strategies, particularly around self-service. Often I meet newbies to the process, who seem to think 90-95% take up of tenant self-service is possible, and others who basically are a little afraid to put a figure on it. ‘Just an improvement’.

Would that be enough and would it really motivate staff to ‘convert’ tenants to self-servers, if there was no target at all?

Now I think it’s very important to have great self-service tech with practical usability that means residents will choose it as a preferable channel to interact.

We choose Amazon and EasyJet because it works and it’s efficient. In other ways we have channel shifted because we were driven to by sticks, not carrots. We stopped using cheques because the banks stopped filling stations processing them, moving to cheaper credit/debit cards. We stopped walking into bank branches and using internet banking, because all the branches turned into coffee joints and wine bars.

I feel we can have better carrots in the sector, than harder sticks. My experience of suppliers in the sector, such as Hallnet with their Active Housing brand, show that done well, those carrots can be extremely tasty. I was telling someone just last week a story of a visit I made a few years back to Torus Housing Group and an experience in their foyer, in St Helens.

It was a busy morning and I joined a queue of seven residents, trying to get to reception. During the lengthy wait, the tenant in front of me started to chat with the guy in front and asked him, “what he was here for today?”. He replied he was “reporting a repair” and the other chap told him, “you don’t have to come here to do that, why not do it online?”. In the following 3 minutes, I watched him help his neighbour sign up, log his repair and then he was out the door!

So that was a story of carrots so good, residents were sharing them among themselves! How good would that be?

I recently had a chat with a contact at Active Housing, who provide the leading one-stop fully integrated self-service solution Active Portal, about how practically, Housing Providers can better introduce the self-service tech, to the benefit of their residents. They shared that comms is very important, as is involving your tenant panel and internal key stakeholders in the project, to ensure it’s easy to use and hits the spot of what residents want from self-service. At every touch point with the organisation, self-service as a time saver needs to be introduced. Where staff interact, rather than taking away a request to progress, they should be working as evangelists, to introduce residents to self-service, where they have smartphones or similar means to take advantage of it.


If you are like me, everyone or any company I ever work with, I go to their website first. Active Housing provide an easy means of picking up this traffic and are able to provide a short tailored video, for organisations to introduce the benefits of self-service to their customers. Check out this one here from one provider and their new responsive webportal MyPhoenix - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i1n8U8eyQ8

Another really effective technique recommended by Active Housing, is to encourage clients to adopt an inbound call campaign. This is when a tenant calls (about anything at all) and the call handler signs them up for an account over the phone. ActiveHousing’s portal admin section has full support for this and the user still sets all their own login credentials to ensure security. It sounds old fashioned, but given they have to take the call anyway and organisations often have data issues which can prevent registration (eg incorrect Date of Birth’s), it's a proven but simple technique. 



Thinking back to my Torus experience, an important takeaway to share is that a degree of internal staff attitude and culture shift will be necessary. Reassure your Customer Services team that smaller might be better. Done well, this will cement behaviours for staff and reveal the benefits for a greater number of residents   



Checkout the best in self-service, with integration to multiple systems on the Hallnet Active Housing website here: https://www.activehousing.co.uk/

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