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The Hidden Capacity Briefing

What if your repairs service has more capacity than you think?

An evidence-based presentation about how housing organisations can complete more repairs, without more people, by changing the way the work works.

What you’ll learn in this presentation

  1. 1

    How to discover what’s really holding your repairs service back

    Why the information you currently rely on might not be telling you what you need to know.

  2. 2

    How to decide what needs to change — and what doesn’t

    A practical way to identify the changes that could make the biggest difference, rather than simply doing more of what you’re already doing.

  3. 3

    How to unlock more capacity without increasing your workforce

    What we’ve learned from real repairs operations about achieving more with the people and resources you already have.

Low Effort Stock Right Now

Stock Right Now provides stock-management technology and information to make the right parts available where repairs happen. Why we work with Stock Right Now

The right parts, in the right quantities, where the work happens, removes a major barrier to completing repairs in one visit.
Neil Alexander, founder of Stock Right Now
Neil Alexander
Get the inside track on your repairs service

What could your team achieve with the people and resources you already have?

Spend an hour with Stuart and Neil exploring what we’ve learned from inside housing repairs operations — including the surprising obstacles that rarely appear in performance reports.

We’ll share how repairs teams have more than doubled their output without increasing their workforce, and help you identify which lessons might apply to your own organisation.

No cost. No sales pitch. No obligation. Just insights you can put to work.

Stuart CorriganNeil Alexander
Stuart Corrigan and Neil Alexander
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Housing Repairs ER

The story of how one council changed the way its repairs work worked, and what you can learn from it. By Stuart Corrigan and Neil Alexander.

Housing Repairs ER by Stuart Corrigan and Neil Alexander
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