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Your homebuying consumers may pay higher prices for all durables -- including new homes -- in the months ahead. But it's the wrong time to deemphasize focus on what they value. That's where imagination plays a role.
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The Kitchen Table Lens: Builders' Pricing Strategies For 2022
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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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Your homebuying consumers may pay higher prices for all durables -- including new homes -- in the months ahead. But it's the wrong time to deemphasize focus on what they value. That's where imagination plays a role.
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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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Past As Prologue: Where Subs' Field Feedback Saves Builders Money
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