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1 Home Builders: Can you afford scheduling software now?
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| Abstract | Home builders are cutting costs and people to get their balance sheets back in order during the current downturn in the nation’s housing market. The remaining staff still needs to build quality homes on time and on budget. There are scheduling software solutions available to help keep builders on track and automate much of the communication. However, since IT spending is also being cut, how can builders consider buying scheduling software? Implications: Cutting people and IT will affect the productivity of the builder. The risks to doing so are too important to ignore: • Cuts to IT products and services could be crucial and may impact performance • The less IT automation, the less savings on overall expenses • Fewer resources trickle down to other problems like loss of time, unreliable schedules, construction errors and eventually lost profits. Business management’s decision to reduce IT spending should be resisted. Any businesses with well-targeted IT investments outperform their peers by 2-5 % of gross profit. Protecting any profit in these times is of the utmost importance. The bottom line is that builders need to accomplish more with less: less time, less people and less spending. One of the quickest ways to get things done and still save money is by using software to automate repetitive work, organize and provide information, and encourage quality. |
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