Be the Builder of Choice
Become the Builder of Choice for your suppliers, trades, component manufacturers,
employees, customers, investors, developers, and communities.
MiTek® TrueNorth™ Consulting applies Lean construction methods to help builders build more homes with fewer resources while improving quality. TrueNorth Consulting conducts collaborative workshops, quality surveys, and employs Lean process tools to uncover and eliminate hidden waste, ultimately improving profits and relationships for all constituents.
To create a lasting impact, the builder involves all key stakeholders—including suppliers, trades, and manufacturers—as partners so their voices are heard and valued. By actively listening to those closely involved in the building process, it becomes possible to identify multiple sources of waste. This collaborative approach results in significant cost reduction, improved build quality, and better margins for you and your partners.
What is Lean?
Lean process is a systematic approach to identify and eliminate waste in all its forms. Waste includes anything that hinders progress, slows down operations, causes rework, or obstructs productivity.
If you’re thinking, “Been there, done that,” know that virtually every company that has ever undertaken Lean thought the same. TrueNorth Lean is not mere value engineering. Our Lean approach brings methods and techniques together in a new way for the homebuilding industry.
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“Lean is a science, culture, discipline, and a set of tools focused on the relentless pursuit, identification, and destruction of waste in all its forms”
Scott Sedam, Principal, TrueNorth Consulting
Offerings
TrueNorth Consulting provides a range of Lean-based services specifically designed for the homebuilding industry. We have a service that meets every requirement, or we will create one tailored just for you.
With associates located across the country, who have worked with more than 200 builders in five countries specifically on Lean implementation, TrueNorth Consulting offers a national perspective to your local issues and needs.
Identify and eliminate waste in product and process through a collaborative, structured approach with key suppliers, trades, and manufacturers.
Flagship offering.
Apply the transformative methods from LeanBuilding Blitz to back-office operations and internal departments to identify avoidable waste and cost.
An intense, focused plan review process, including all relevant suppliers and trades with a select builder team, uses our proprietary coding system and process to reveal plan and specification issues that cause design-induced waste.
The high-impact tools and methods from the LeanBuilding Blitz adopted for Land Development suppliers and trades.
A specialized survey tool to gather essential feedback from suppliers and trade contractors, facilitating improved communication and operational practices for better relationships and enhanced success.
News & Events
In 2023, MiTek acquired TrueNorth Development to further its mission of advancing off-site construction methods and expanding component manufacturing globally.
Read the press release to learn more.
Working with TrueNorth Consulting has been one of the most rewarding experiences and cost-effective investments in my career
TrueNorth Consulting’s process has a unique ability to draw from employees the essence of a company’s strengths and areas in need of improvement and then drill down to what is essential. It cuts right to the most important issues and priorities. It makes the intangible tangible, and you walk away with simple Plans of Action for improvement.
The talent as a consultant and mentor, coupled with the business tools and tests, provides workshops that truly work and that you can work with, not just some “pie-in-the-sky” philosophy or a notebook you put on the shelf.
It is in this environment that the “students” feel most comfortable and are willing to open up, allowing you to get the most out of all participants, not just the usual overly talkative ones.
I vigorously recommend TrueNorth Consulting for operational improvement and strategic planning. They make serious, challenging issues look simple, understandable, and achievable. All participants walk away feeling that they have accomplished great tasks, anxiously anticipating further successes with the plans for improvement driven out.