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Pre-Planning as a Business - www.houseraising.com

BusinessWeek magazine highlighted this business in an article about the next web businesses - see article and subtitle called Online Job Foreman.

The article is about how Robert McLemore who is a custom homebuilder took his construction project pre-planning experience and turned it into a business - www.houseraising.com

Basically what he did was come up with 1,269 specific problems that are encountered during the course of building a custom home. From there he came up with 3,400 steps to mitigate the problems. This was all built into a management system that allows builders, owners, vendors and subcontractors to login to a website specific to a project and manage these problems and mitigating steps.

This is EXACTLY the approach that should be taken during normal project pre-planning. Get the whole project team to look through the entire project in a structured manner, looking for all potential conflicts, problems, points of impacted productivity, opportunities for improved productivity, etc.

Of the various services that we provide I love working with contractors on project pre-planning facilitation more than anything else. Don't burn money by failing to pre-plan.

Posted by David on October 20, 2006 06:30 AM|Permalink

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