Working in partnership with a diverse range of UK’s leading suppliers, housebuilders, developers, registered providers and local authorities, ilke Homes works with its partners to help them create sustainable communities they can be proud of.

ilke Homes Based in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, ilke Homes specialises in delivering precision-engineered, energy efficient homes at scale, helping to address the UK’s demand for housing. ilke Homes is fast becoming one of the major players in the housing industry and has ambitions to deliver 2,000 homes by 2020 and 5,000 homes in the next five years.

ilke Homes’ modular homes can be installed on site at a rate of six homes per day, which represents a significant acceleration in build times, meaning the modular homes can be created in less than half the time of traditionally built houses.

The modular houses are produced in ilke Homes’ factory and installed on site. The homes typically cost 50% less to heat than an average UK home, and 20% less than traditionally built new properties, resulting in significant cost savings. The homes come fully fitted (from kitchens and bathrooms to electricity) and decorated, and furnishing options are also available. The designs are pre-specified, and workers assemble the finished houses on site.

ilke Homes objectives

Accessible and convenient

Two way communication

The team at ilke Homes were looking for a mobile engagement solution that would be easy for every employee to access, implement, and use regardless of where they are based—whether at the company’s headquarters in London, their production site in Knaresborough, or at building sites around the UK.

Since their business requires many workers to be out in the field rather than desk-based and many lack access to a laptop or desktop computer, ilke Homes wanted the most effective way to share information across the organisation and among work groups.

It was also critical that the communication be two-way - not just from management to staff, but from staff to their managers and peers, to share perspectives, viewpoints and best practices.

As the company’s mission is based on providing housing to local communities - ilke Homes’ management wanted an effective way to showcase and share these efforts with employees (including non-desk employees NDEs) to make it clear how the work that each person does helps make a meaningful difference in the community.

After exploring several options, ilke Homes decided that to achieve all of these goals they needed a mobile solution that was capable of reaching their entire workforce. Their search led them to StaffConnect’s mobile engagement solution, whose platform not only helped them share the company’s vision and goals with every worker at each level of the organisation, but also easily enabled delivery of other key company news, including status-related updates about the company’s progress toward its goal of delivering 2,000 precision-engineered homes within two years, to help tackle the UK’s chronic shortfall in affordable housing.

StaffConnect’s Customer Success team also brought in domain expertise, helping Ilke Homes pinpoint a winning communication and engagement strategy which including using the platform to promote employee benefits such as exclusive canteen offers and local supplier discounts. Early results are encouraging with over 50% of employees enthusiastically embracing the benefits and features of the app to communicate with each other, share content companywide and with their specific workgroups, and provide feedback to their managers.

“StaffConnect’s mobile engagement platform has been a big game changer for us, and very unifying in terms of how we’re now approaching communication and understanding the importance of our work at ilke Homes. It’s helped with everything from engagement, sustainability and innovation to transparency and two-way information exchange. We’re also now able to gather key data points and feedback for ongoing analysis in relation to engagement. The app helps us fulfill our mission

by spreading it throughout our staff, facilitating an exciting, inclusive culture where people want to contribute to reaching our mutual goal of getting more people into inspiring, energy efficient housing.”

Helen Charlesworth, Head of HR, ilke Homes.

Company News Enabling all

employees to have on-the-go access

to all the latest company news and updates.

Events Promote online and

offline company events with the ability to link to relevant event

information and registration pages

My ilke Community Encourages user

generated content by enabling employees to share updates, images

and videos with the option to comment and

like posts.

A Better Wayilke have also

created a dedicated feed promoting

their commitment to corporate social

responsibility.

Key features

StaffConnect App

Transform the way you reach, communicate and engage with your employees and volunteers

Quiz

Communities

Library

News

Events

Videos Survey

Suggestions

FeedsDirectory

ChatTickertape

The StaffConnect app has a range of features designed to build an emotional connection with your people. Where each and every person feels part of something greater than themselves, are proud to be part of it and actively connect, engage and promote the positive qualities

NotificationsUsers Content Moderation Analytics

TestingPlanning Configuration Training Launch Ongoing Success

Our unique AppSuccess programme is designed by internal communication professionals to ensure the quick and ongoing success of implementing StaffConnect. It provides customers with guidance on best-practice content strategy, training for the admin console and a library of resources to support a successful launch and

ongoing use.

The management console is a powerful, browser-based portal for sophisticated user, content and notification management. It also provides analytics to deliver insights

into how the app is performing against engagement goals.

Management Console

AppSuccess Programme

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