Category: Essential posts

Three key questions to give your ecosystem a physical: Part 3, follow the money

22 September, 2009 (10:02) | Ecosystems, Essential posts, Finance, Primer Posts, Theory, Titling | No comments

By: David Smith

 

[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.]
 
So far, in tracing the housing finance ecosystem by examining three value chain (connections by which transactions occur), we covered housing providers finding housing consumers (Part 1), and the baton pass of recognized ownership/ occupancy rights (Part 2).
 
Now for the third key question.
 

We [...]

Three key questions to give your ecosystem a physical: Part 2, follow the ownership

21 September, 2009 (10:34) | Ecosystems, Essential posts, Finance, Primer Posts, Theory, Titling | No comments

By: David A. Smith
 

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
In yesterday’s exploration, we suggested that if you want to understand a housing finance ecosystem and lack the statistics or reference resources to compile a proper survey, you can do well by conducting a simpler ‘physical exam.’
 

Is that all I am to you, just a pretty johnny?
 
Any [...]

Three key questions to give your ecosystem a physical: Part 1, follow the critters

18 September, 2009 (09:16) | Ecosystems, Essential posts, Finance, Primer Posts, Theory, Titling | No comments

By: David A. Smith

If you get a new doctor, what’s the first thing he or she does – after establishing how you or your insurance will pay, of course? The physical exam.

We make them cold so that we know you’re dead if you don’t flinch

When we don’t know how a system [...]

The solution is its salesware

16 July, 2009 (09:33) | Essential posts, Housing, Innovations, Theory | No comments

 

Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said: ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’
‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’
Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll
 
The Wright Brothers [...]

What makes a good consultant? Part 2b, services and activities

27 May, 2009 (09:50) | AHI activities, Consulting, Essential posts, MEEs, Markets, Public-Private Partnerships, Theory, US News | No comments

[Continued from the previous Part 2a.]
[A previous trio, Part 1a , Part 1b , and Part 1c, covered the rules of engagement with clients.]
 
Holmes sat for some time in silent thought. He had lit the oldest and foulest of his pipes.“I am not clear yet what you want me to do in this matter, Mr. [...]