Becoming a superior builder
This white paper takes an in-depth look at challenges faced by homebuilders and endeavors to help the builder not only cope, but grow through the process to become a stronger company—financially sound, more efficient, and more effective. For example, how do you determine what systems or procedures you need? How do you tweak your methods of operation to bring out the best in your company and its employees, the trades, and your buyers? Change can be challenging and time consuming—but can yield huge rewards.
This white paper is the result of collaboration between Microsoft and Shinn Consulting, a homebuilding industry expert with more than 35 years of experience. Shinn Consulting has developed superior performance systems and procedures which are in use today by many of the most successful homebuilders.
In this document:
| • | Builders are feeling pressure from a wide variety of sources, including land availability, demanding buyers, rising costs, market changes, and trade issues |
| • | The role of systems and automation in relieving these pressures |
| • | Strategies for choosing the right technologies |
| • | The value of shared information to the builder's business success |
| • | Identifying problem areas that Microsoft technologies can help solve |
