Staying ahead of tenant satisfaction

Data reigns supreme 

When the stakes are as high as they are in housing, it was essential that every bit of Sovereign's huge volumes of feedback received were heard.

That becomes difficult when the volumes involved are overwhelming. So how can you increase tenant satisfaction while simultaneously making service improvements that reduce the problems residents face day-to-day?

This was Sovereign’s objective when they first started using Wordnerds.

Solutions

Swift adoption, broad application

Sovereign Housing provides homes for more than 130,000 residents across the south and south west of England. They make it their mission to ensure they are creating great places to live.

Of course, accomplishing that goal requires interrogating huge amounts of tenant feedback across all sorts of channels. To help them tackle difficult areas such as resident trust and root cause analysis, Wordnerds has been placed in the breach to listen to tenants across everything from STAR surveys to live chat conversations.

Within a month of using Wordnerds, Sovereign had introduced changes to their Repairs service off the back of insights surfaced - and they have only been driving change since then.

To start with, Sovereign linked up their existing STAR surveys to our platform to analyse key trends and surface unknown unknowns.

As team expertise and understanding of the platform grew, more and more departments were found to benefit from automation and large-scale, in-depth text data analysis.

Ad hoc projects such as their Communities and Neighbourhoods research, complaints surveys, and other tenant voice pieces were rolled into their use of the platform. Live chat conversations were later included as well.