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Lean Design

My Aunt Janice (rest her soul) gave amazing Christmas gifts when I was a kid. One of my favorites was “Hugo the man with a thousand faces.”...

Quality Management

A Risk Management Benchmarking Survey in 2010 showed that 65% of businesses conduct no form of risk analysis prior to making major corporate...

Customer Satisfaction

A builder would never build, merchandise, and maintain a model without staffing it, would they? Of course not - this would be abuse of an...

The Sweet Spot

Success through collaboration

When you look at your trade contractors, your suppliers, product distributors, what do you see? Are they a line item, an expense, a...

The Lean Builder

Last fall the president of one of America’s “Top 10” builders who I have known for years corralled me at a conference. Because I travel this...

Quality Management

Rework—What It Is and Ways to Avoid It

Rework is a common cause of schedule creep and cost overruns. Here's how to know what failures trigger rework so you can avoid them

Lean Design

I catch myself from time to time spending money on things that I just don’t need to. Whether it’s the cool action video I think I will...

The Lean Builder

The NAHB in conjunction with Professional Builder Magazine launched the National Housing Quality Award (NHQA) in 1993 to encourage and...

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...

Lean Design

Why bother naming your houses? It would be a whole lot easier and more efficient to identify your homes by their square footage. It could...

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