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The Smart Bet: Why Builders Must Invest More In Women
Labor shortages are strangling home construction, but the industry keeps overlooking its most untapped talent pool—women. It’s time, finally, for homebuilders to commit more broadly to change the game.
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The Kitchen Table Lens: Builders' Pricing Strategies For 2022
Headline risks of price inflation and longer-haul supply chokeholds notwithstanding, here's how you might frame your pricing strategy for an extended stretch of limbo.
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Proof-Case: To Keep Pace With Consumers, Evolve Or Else
As an example of the business value of bold strategy and investment, take Kohler, never content with the status quo, but rather a leading barometer of consumer climate change.
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How Epic Partners Beat Epic Breakdowns In The Supply Chain
The story of Holiday Builders and its partners solving supply paralysis to deliver a home for a deserving veteran and his family is a story of people in homebuilding doing what others say, 'can't be done.'
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Past As Prologue: Where Subs' Field Feedback Saves Builders Money
An all-too-common path to cost control happens when builders tell suppliers, 'just get it done.' Here, from Ken Pinto's kaizen vault on throughput gains, is an alternative approach.
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Land Entitlement Risk, Leadership, And People Who Think Differently Than Us
Where housing strategists draw up short concerns the lifeline of real estate – the ultimate brittle, fragile, and, opposite-of-resilient but vitally important supply chain of zoned, entitled, home sites.