by Saad Shah | Apr 15, 2017 | 4. Presentation Tools, 6. Results, Case Studies, Demo
The National Multifamily Housing Council released its 2017 NMHC Top 50 Lists this week. In addition to publishing the lists, NMHC also provided a downloadable Excel file of the data. I took the data from the 2015, 2016, and 2017 lists and created this visualization in...
by Saad Shah | Apr 10, 2017 | 5. Business Processes, 6. Results, Case Studies
Lean Management methods are widely practiced in many industries, but I have not come across Lean methods in property management. A key concept in Lean Management methods is “waste”. In the context of Lean methods in property management, anything your company does that...
by Saad Shah | Apr 1, 2017 | 5. Business Processes, 6. Results, Case Studies, Download Content
One of the first steps in improving business performance is to document the processes. It easy to get bogged down in the details, so it a good idea to start with simple, high-level diagrams and get general agreement on them. In this post I present a property...
by Saad Shah | Mar 31, 2017 | 6. Results, Case Studies
When I first introduce the concept of zero defects to my clients, they think it is impossible and unrealistic. Then I say that they are already close to zero defects in at least one of their business processes, and this piques their curiosity. If you are a property...
by Saad Shah | Mar 30, 2017 | 5. Business Processes
Is it possible to process thousands of leasing applications, submit thousands of background checks, complete thousands of maintenance requests and conduct thousands of property turnovers and not have one thing go wrong? Or, in other words, is it possible to have zero...