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KBD 2030 - Business Practices for Kitchen and Bath Design

Credits: 2
Hours/Week: Lecture 1 Lab 2
Course Description: This course addresses aspects of managing and/or owning a kitchen and/or bath design business. Course activities include the completion of some of the contract documents needed to ensure the timely installation of a project from start to completion along with follow-up procedures. Topics include business basics, creating a business plan and marketing plan, how financing is handled, how to price products and services, how to manage inventory, how to market a business and how to keep an organization motivated and up to date. This course requires enrollment in Kitchen and Bath Design Program.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): KBD 1010  and KBD 1030  or instructor consent
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Types of kitchen and bath design business models
  2. Kitchen and bath design careers
  3. Strategic business and the design process
  4. Business legal structures
  5. Pricing
  6. Demographics
  7. Business plan
  8. NKBA Code of Conduct
  9. Successful entrepreneur
  10. Marketing plan

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. define the business practices that are encouraged by NKBA and the kitchen and bath design industry as a whole.
  2. define the different types of kitchen and bath design jobs in the industry.
  3. identify NKBA project forms that would be used by a kitchen and bath designer.
  4. develop a Kitchen and Bath Design marketing plan.
  5. develop a kitchen and bath design business plan.

Competency 1 (1-6)
None
Competency 2 (7-10)
None


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