Lean Homebuilding Leaders interviewed on Business901 Podcast

Dec. 12, 2012 - PRLog -- In a recent Business901 podcast Scott Sedam, President of TrueNorth Development (http://truen.com/) and Todd Hallett, AIA, President of TK Design & Associates, Inc. (http://business901.com/tkhomedesign.com) gave an overview and some tips to get started. Lean Homebuilding = Better Product, Greater Return (http://business901.com/blog1/lean-homebuilding-better-product-greater-return/) is a transcription of the 55 minute long podcast.
There is also a link to download the podcast from the Business901 Itunes store.


Scott Sedam is President of TrueNorth Development, an internationally-known consulting and training firm focused exclusively on the building industry. Now in its fifteenth year with a staff of 6 field consultants, TrueNorth conducts consulting projects and training workshops with more than 200 builder, supplier & trade clients in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Mexico. Scott’s presentations are a popular feature at industry conferences and company meetings and he has published a monthly article in the industry for more than 15 years. Scott serves as contributing editor for Professional Builder Magazine.


Todd Hallett, AIA, President of TK Design & Associates, Inc. has been designing award winning homes for over 20 years. He spent 15 of those years working for a $50 million production building company. Todd specializes in Lean Design and works, alongside Scott, in the trenches with builders, suppliers, and trade contractors.

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Joe has participated with companies involved in retail, manufacturing, software and professional services along their quality journey. In these companies, Joe developed and implemented sales and marketing strategies. Always being a process thinker, he attached Lean to the way of implementing sales and marketing and has advanced those practices through Design Thinking and Service Design concepts. The Business901 Blog and Podcast include many leading edge thinkers and been featured numerous times for its contributions to the Bloomberg’s Business Week Exchange. Joe has authored four books with the most recent published this year, The Lean Engagement Team.