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Quality Management

Flat empowered organizational structures

Flat, team based and empowered organizations have the potential to out-perform tall hierarchical organizations in most every competitive...

Quality Management

Like changing a wheel while the car is still moving

Process improvement can often be received with impatience and inflated expectations of its impact. One of the regular problems is that a...

Sales

Pulse 2012 report identifies five keys to improve home sales

The results of a new survey by nearly 300 sales and marketing leaders in the home building industry were revealed at the Sales and Marketing Pulse 2012 event at the BB King Blues Club in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 8, 2012 during the International Builders Sh

Pulse 2012, report, survey, sales performance, IBS, Orlando

Codes + Standards

LEED roofing guide available from NRCA

The National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA) has released A Roofing Professional's Guide to LEED to help roofing professionals who want to learn more about the roofing-specific issues related to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ra

Quality Management

Don’t paint yourself into a corner and create a negative work environment

Often managers set goals for employees such as a minimum number of units to be produced each week and once this is achieved on a regular...

Quality Management

Back to Basics: Checklists and clearly documenting errors to reduce costs

Checklists and audits may be one of the most basic approaches to quality but they frequently lead to problems of accurate data collection. A...

Quality Management

Step by step process diagrams for performance excellence: NHQA

NHQ Award winning builder, NHQA Judge and consultant Tom Gillespie has developed a set of process diagrams that provide an overview of the...

The Lean Builder

Lean Building Blog: There is no future in pessimism

Our business picked up in late 2011, started the New Year off well, and we were deluged at the IBS show, beginning with a standing-room-only...

Quality Management

Sometimes risk management is as simple as listening to your customers

Recently I’ve seen a financial company misplace $30k, a health care organization twice have a patient end up back in ER and a manufacturer...

Codes + Standards

New Virginia statewide building code goes into effect March 1

After March 1, all building plans in Virginia must adhere to the 2009 code that was adopted a year ago.

Home Builders Institute's Schools to Skills Grant Application Open Through December

As Mortgage Rates Rise, Buyers Lose Purchasing Power

Renters Are Choosing Single-Family Homes for These Features