https://www.glacuho.org/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1369563 Thu, 4 Jun 2026 13:23:06 GMT Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:05:43 GMT Copyright © 2017 GLACUHO https://www.glacuho.org/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1369563 https://www.glacuho.org/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1369563 Looking further into the Segway story, it was noted the product went through several revisions before a prospective customer saw it. Expanding on this, Adam Grant included a footnote quoting Henry Ford. What are your reactions to this quote? In what ways does this apply to the housing profession’s stakeholders?]]> Wed, 5 Jul 2017 15:22:10 GMT https://www.glacuho.org/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1370013 https://www.glacuho.org/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1370013 Thu, 6 Jul 2017 18:52:08 GMT https://www.glacuho.org/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1372757 https://www.glacuho.org/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1372757
In the residence halls, many students really do not want them. They want apartments. Our school has a first-year residency program, so they are 'stuck' with us for the first year. But, if our product is not tested well and does not engage in continuous improvement, students will switch to apartments, as soon as they are able.

Something that is not in the reading that may be very relevant to housing is the number of people working on projects and taking feedback seriously. The Model T had a few people working on it, and they had clear goals of producing an affordable automobile for the masses that would be nimble on the muddy roads of the time. That is why the Model T has independent suspension. The infamous colossal failure, the Edsel, had a large committee working on it, they did not have a clear vision for their product (but they had a good imagination of the dollar signs they wanted to make), there was testing but that feedback did not get taken seriously because multiple designers wanted to create what they wanted, and the hype leading to its launch meant that the product went to market before it was ready, with trunks sticking and other malfunctions.

Committee size is often critical to accomplishing goals. If there are too many people working on something and everybody's ideas get incorporated into a project rather than choosing what might work best and the end result might be messy.

Too often I hear stories of students complaining about noise and other people problems on floors leading to them not having good experiences over time because they believe their feedback went ignored. ]]> Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:05:43 GMT