Business Management
Consequences of Complexity in the Building Process
When complexity exceeds capacity, everyone loses. Here's the first step in fixing a broken process
Business Management
Improving Process With Clarity, Priority, and Focus
What to do when everything on the list is Job No. 1
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
In these times of increasing sales with decreasing margins, home builders are on a continual campaign to decrease costs. Every cost category from…
Operations
Why do builders avoid facing the facts on process failure?
“Sometimes life – and work – would be easier if you could forget some things you’ve learned.”
So begins my August article in Professional…
Business Management
Process Failure: Product Waste in Home Building
The desire to deny it is strong, but it's time to admit: Most product waste in home building has its roots in bad process. Let's look at what to do about it
Business Management
12 Processes for Sustainable Profit
How to establish sound business systems that ensure a healthy bottom line
Labor + Trade Relations
Trade Shortage Dilemma
There is a way for builders to overcome the labor shortage
Mergers + Acquisitions
Merge With Caution
Last week’s big announcement of the merger of StanPac and Ryland Group, creating a new member of the Top 5 Homebuilders, spawned a flurry of…
Business Management
Listen Up Home Builders, It’s All About the Process
Significant savings can be found in being more efficient with trade labor, materials, and employees, but that isn’t how you find the real cost savings in production building. The route to the margin you seek is through process
Labor + Trade Relations
Trade Shortage Heats Up. Looking for Love (and Relief) in All the Wrong Places
The shortage of qualified trade contractors is a problem that vexes the entire industry and finally people are waking up to it, largely for the…