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Leadership
Build-To-Order Back On Track As Mainstay Of KB Home Strategy
At its heart, KB Home's "build-to-order" approach empowers customers with unparalleled customization options, setting a solid foundation for its market differentiation.
Technology
Eliminating Guesswork In Real-Time A Key To 2024 Resiliency
In a "VUCA-for-longer" backdrop, guesswork and the wide margins of error needed to sustain viability that go with ballpark ranges, rough estimates, and theoretical outcomes practically beg for extinction moments.
Architecture
'Value Engineering' 2023-Style Adds Real Value As It Cuts Cost
Value engineering needs a reset to satisfy both the business requirements to produce homes profitably in trickier times, and to win over customers whose discrimination and hesitation guards may go up at any moment.
Leadership
Homelessness And Homebuilders: Parallel Realities Or Merging Worlds?
As the housing crisis and its effects spread faster and come to "a neighborhood near you," market-rate enterprise leaders may either end up as part of the solutions or be viewed as part of the problem.
Leadership
Here's Why Builders Don't Panic As Economic Storm Clouds Gather
Rather few strategists among higher-volume homebuilders believe the December 2022 to February 2023 lift will evolve into a sustainable reboot of exuberant demand. That doesn't faze them.
Leadership
Is This Time Different? Builders' Playbooks Look For The Same Gains, With Different Plays
Builders downturn strategies typically call for narrowing the pricing gap that gives existing home sellers an edge when demand is low. It's the same now, only different.
Technology
Whether Good Signs Build Mojo Or Return To Hibernation, Prepare
All a strategist can do now is to recognize the hard work and thus far successful efforts of their teams in the face of stiff headwinds, and brace for what's ahead, come what may.
Together with
Constellation HomeBuilder Systems
Leadership
Signs Of Mojo: Time To Declare Victory Or Brace For More Bumps?
Pace has begun to show up, perhaps ahead of schedule. Now what?
Products
Lowe's, Home Depot Deepen Reach Into Big Builder Solutions
Jockeying for position among homebuilders now -- as builders look to arbitrage suppliers for quick and lasting cost cutting opportunity -- pro dealer giants may presage a more strategic role as a capability solution beyond the downturn.
Together with
Constellation HomeBuilder Systems
Technology
Builders Claim Crucial Edge As ERP, In-The-Field Info Syncs Up
"Trying to align your business to the market on ‘stale’ data is not an efficient business practice and requires larger swings in pricing as you look to recapture lost revenue.” — Paolo Benzan, Constellation Homebuilder Systems
Together with
Constellation HomeBuilder Systems
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Leadership 03.21.24
Build-To-Order Back On Track As Mainstay Of KB Home Strategy
At its heart, KB Home's "build-to-order" approach empowers customers with unparalleled customization options, setting a solid foundation for its market differentiation.
Technology 11.07.23
Eliminating Guesswork In Real-Time A Key To 2024 Resiliency
In a "VUCA-for-longer" backdrop, guesswork and the wide margins of error needed to sustain viability that go with ballpark ranges, rough estimates, and theoretical outcomes practically beg for extinction moments.
Architecture 10.06.23
'Value Engineering' 2023-Style Adds Real Value As It Cuts Cost
Value engineering needs a reset to satisfy both the business requirements to produce homes profitably in trickier times, and to win over customers whose discrimination and hesitation guards may go up at any moment.
Leadership 08.14.23
Homelessness And Homebuilders: Parallel Realities Or Merging Worlds?
As the housing crisis and its effects spread faster and come to "a neighborhood near you," market-rate enterprise leaders may either end up as part of the solutions or be viewed as part of the problem.
Leadership 03.09.23
Here's Why Builders Don't Panic As Economic Storm Clouds Gather
Rather few strategists among higher-volume homebuilders believe the December 2022 to February 2023 lift will evolve into a sustainable reboot of exuberant demand. That doesn't faze them.
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