Best Practices
We know home building budgets have been cut to the bone, so there’s little money for training and even less for travel to conferences and workshops. However, we also know there’s no less need for information to help you do your job more effectively and ultimately more successfully. So, we’ve developed this line of free, on-demand slidecasts to help you keep on top of your game.
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Judo Product Development:
How to use process to gain an edge on competitorsFMI consultant Clark Ellis and architect Jerry Gloss show mixed martial arts strategy belongs as much in your company’s culture as in the UFC octagon. By following a path of discipline and control, your company can create a solutions-oriented organization that can outmaneuver rivals by bringing competitive product to market faster and more profitably.
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Foreclosure Fighters:
Not just for the first-time buyer market anymoreMany builders have been successful in nabbing buyers from the resale and foreclosure markets with the rollout of value-oriented product lines, which are more affordable and less expensive to build. But as the first-time buyer pool runs dry, will builders be ready to meet the move-up market? Designers Kerrin West of Studio 81 International and John Thatch of The Dahlin Group weigh in on how to retool to have a foreclosure fighter at every price level.
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