Leadership

Scott Sedam: How to save $5,000 per unit

If you knew that were losing at least $5K per unit due to one single item of waste in your houses, would you do anything about it? How about $10K? …

Customer Service

Scott Sedam: How do you define value to the customer?

A discussion erupted this month on the LeanBuilding Group on Linked In about how do you define value to the customer? One of our members was…

Best Practices

Scott Sedam: Consider true value before switching suppliers or products

Twenty years ago, there was a project in Denver where the foundations began moving, to the point that several new homes had to be taken completely…

A la carte insanity – Could it happen in home building?

It’s hard to say who has taken the “a la carte” mentality to the most absurd level, the airlines or the rental car companies. Pay for food, pay for…

Down Under II

I just finished a day in Australia, working with suppliers and trades in one-hour Lean meetings. Guess what? If not for the accent, local terminology…

Wonder Down Under

For more than 20 years, I have traveled the U.S. and Canada almost weekly. One-hundred nights or more in hotel rooms is not so much fun, but meeting…

First, Do No Harm

Hoping for something provocative to read on a long trip, I picked up a book of short essays by Kurt Vonnegut. I have always felt an unwarranted…

Scott Sedam

Scott Sedam, president of TrueNorth Development (www.truen.com), spends most of his time working in the trenches with builders, suppliers and trade…