Greg Burnet: You know, it���s funny you
mention that, because I went back to white
boards about a year ago. We had a bunch
of different apps and software programs,
but if it wasn���t in front of my face, it was out
of mind. So I���ve put up white boards all over
the place. We have one specifically for leads,
one specifically for scheduled jobs, one for
vendors and orders and so on. It���s actually
gotten pretty systematic and works extremeJory Brigham
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ly well, far better than any software programs that we used.
Eric Martinson: I joined the white
board team, too. We do have a CRM program that was built specifically for my
company, and that does job costing and all
kinds of stuff. It���s really neat, and it���s very
smooth, but we still keep up white boards
as well. We���ve created a systematic
approach that works well with the computers and our white boards, because, like you
guys were saying, if it���s not in front of your
face, it can be easy to overlook.
Greg Burnet: It really all comes down
to personalities and what people are comfortable with. My sister also works in the
business for us, and she does the accounting. She���s big into computers and software
and was adamant that she wanted to establish computer programs to do all these
things. We had a business consultant we
worked with over the past year, and he had
a similar mind set. But it didn���t work for
me, and it didn���t work for our lead carpenter. So, it finally came to a head for us
about six or eight months ago. I got really
frustrated and felt that we had invested a
ton of time and money in some of these
systems that, to me, just weren���t delivering
a benefit. So, we went back and put up
more white boards, because for me that���s
what worked. My sister and my wife still
use the software programs, but the lead
carpenter and I tend to rely on the white
boards more than anything.
I think we were looking for the silver
bullet, and it just didn���t exist.
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