Business Management Best Practices

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3 Ways Home Builders Can Mitigate Risk in an Evolving Housing Market

Monitoring conditions and being open to new strategies can help home builders navigate the housing market

The Imagination Age of using information and data in home building

Leadership

Business Metrics and the Imagination Age of Home Building

It’s time to get serious about your business metrics and make them work harder (and smarter) for you

Business Management Best Practices

Supply Chain Enhancements to Help Avoid Future Materials Shortages

Dallas-based Highland Homes took the initiative to solve pandemic-driven supply chain woes to ensure a more secure, reliable future

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Business Management Best Practices

5 Questions About Preconstruction Service Agreements Answered

Stop giving away your expertise for free. Preconstruction service agreements create transparency between you and your client and place real value on your work

Leadership

5 Myths About Business Decision-Making Debunked

From hubris to procrastination and inaction, don't let these barriers to faster and better decision-making bog down your business and limit its success and profitability

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Business Management

Got Benchmarking?

Consider the benefits of comparing and measuring your data against broader industry sets to establish goals and improve your business

Business Management

Ways to Improve Home Building Productivity, Part 2: Automation

Home builders can maximize efficiencies gained through simplification and standardization by automating both on-site and back-office operations

Automation in home building includes off-site construction

Business Management

Happiness and 'The Bear'

Can happiness be the core strategy of a home building business? It can ... and it probably should be

Happiness in home building: CEO and co-founder Chris Schell at Schell Brothers

Business Management

How to Improve Home Building Productivity, Part 1

Simplifying and standardizing your processes and purchasing creates efficiencies that save money and time and attract the best trade partners

Tradesperson installing a standard door frame throughout several production homes improves productivity

Business Management

Business Management: Then vs. Now

How much has the home building industry changed in the last half-century? Here’s a look at 12 home building operating practices and how they’ve evolved

Business Management

Business Measurement Fails, Part I

Why is getting the numbers right so hard when managing a business?

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Business Management

A Deming Dozen: Nuggets of Wisdom to Work and Live By

Wise words from quality and efficiency expert Dr. W. Edwards Deming abound. Here’s a look at a dozen of the best of Deming's ideas that home builders can learn from

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International Builders' Show

18 Ways to Maximize Your IBS 2023 ROI (and 10 Things to Avoid)

Here's how to make the most of your experience at the International Builders' Show before, during, and after

The International Builders' Show will be in Las Vegas in 2023

Customer Satisfaction

Strive for Perfection

Even an attempt at perfection is difficult, but if you set perfection as your company's goal and everyone involved strives for it, you'll be winning against the competition, regardless

Home builders striving for perfection with their customers get scores of 10

3 Ways Home Builders Can Mitigate Risk in an Evolving Housing Market

Business Metrics and the Imagination Age of Home Building

Supply Chain Enhancements to Help Avoid Future Materials Shortages

5 Questions About Preconstruction Service Agreements Answered

These Are the Best Markets for Buyers and Sellers Right Now

US Rental Market Cools Down Following Several Months of Price Increases

Trends Survey Reveals 4 Residential Design Trends Driven by Rising Costs