Quality Management

Trades and NHQA Performance Excellence

Trade partners have used the National Housing Quality Award over the years as an application process to gain independent feedback on how...

Quality Management

Remodeling and NHQ Performance Excellence

Remodeler winners of the National Housing Quality Award over the years cite a range of best practices that helped them to achieve this level...

Quality Management

The foundations of Quality, Deming

Many people today still see quality as being about 'incremental improvement' rather than innovation and fast dynamic change and particularly...

Quality Management

This short video wonderfully highlights key quality issues that impact the Cost of Quality and avoid risk. It is ideal for introducing...

Quality Management

Lessons from the worst CEOs of 2011

Netflix loses 60% of its market and RIM (Blackberry) also loses over 50% of its market, not a great year for what had been some of the...

Quality Management

Hindsight and Foresight for 2012

Learning from the past and planning for the future. As we move toward 2012 we have a wonderful opportunity to evaluate what happened this...

Quality Management

Study finds new home buyers still want green

A new study (by Yahoo Real Estate, Dec 9th 2011) finds that the American Dream is still to own a home and the top issue for that dream is...

Quality Management

Things to think about when purchasing tablets

Quality, criteria and requirements apply everywhere even when considering tablets, hardware and software. Overall requirements to consider:...

Quality Management

PB Builder of the Year: Excellence

PB Builder of the Year DSLD shows how powerful and central the basics are. Creating excellence on such basic issues as scheduling and scopes...

Quality Management

What and where to improve?

What and where do I start to improve? This is a common question and while we need to balance the cost and impact to identify the real bang...

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