Choosing the right solution
Karbon Homes has always embraced innovation and continuous learning to enhance its services. When their existing system no longer met the evolving needs of the organisation, Karbon Homes sought a solution that would streamline operations and improve meeting management. They chose OneAdvanced’s Meetings & Board Management platform, a user-friendly, intuitive system that not only enhanced security with Multi-Factor Authentication, but also fostered engagement, productivity, and ease for board members and staff alike.
Background
Customer: Karbon Homes Industry Housing
Product: Meetings & Board Management
About: Circa 30,000 homes, with 780 staff across NE England and Yorkshire
Karbon Homes is an organisation whose mission is to “provide people with a strong foundation for life.” To achieve this, they live by their values, which include continually learning and being innovative.
While they had a system in place which was functional, it was limited and no longer under development. Karbon Homes wanted to add Multi-Factor Authentication to improve security, but this wasn’t available for their existing solution.
Meetings & Board Management was rolled out throughout the organisation as the platform to organise, conduct and improve the effectiveness of their board, committees and other meetings.
Fast and easy implementation
Meetings & Board Management was selected as the preferred solution as the most intuitive and easy-to-use of all the systems considered, making it ideal for an organisation whose users have a wide range of IT skills. There was a broad acceptance that the user experience would play a crucial role in the adoption of the software across the various boards, sub-committees, and leadership teams looking to use it.
“The demo we had from OneAdvanced was very concise, clean and quick - this is what you need to use it for, this is how it will work - it had everything for us. There was no pressure, everything was at our pace which was nice, whereas others are still chasing us to this day to buy a system we don’t need.”
Michael Taylor - Project Lead at Karbon Homes.
Building a relationship based on confidence and trust
Another strength of OneAdvanced’s offering was the level of support and training provided, which was both responsive and helpful. While the system is very simple to use, there was a commitment to ensure a smooth transition, which put the organisers and meeting participants at ease.
“The other thing we liked about OneAdvanced was that they were so friendly, easy going and approachable. Nothing was ever an issue, or a problem and we got a lot of confidence from that. The relationship we have built up has been really important and I think it will be going forward as well.”
Michael Taylor - Project Lead at Karbon Homes.
Meetings & Board Management overview
- Easy to use and highly intuitive software
- Greater engagement from meeting attendees
- Better informed attendees leading to more productive meetings
- Notes feature has encouraged more board members to ask questions
- Decreases administrative tasks for the meeting organisers
- Exceptional training and support allows for a seamless transition
By adopting OneAdvanced’s Meetings & Board Management platform, Karbon Homes has significantly improved the security, efficiency, and overall experience of its meeting processes.
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