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Key Strategies for Aspiring Entrepreneurs Considering Franchise Ownership

Strategy Driven

Navigating Your Franchise Journey Embarking on a franchise venture is an exciting escapade into entrepreneurship. At this juncture, the guidance of seasoned franchising consultants can be invaluable, offering insight into the complexities of franchise ownership. Navigating financing options and loan opportunities.

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Fear of Loss of Group Membership is More Powerful Than Management

Mike Cardus

Example – Working with a large Coffee and Bake Shop franchise headquarters wanting the district managers to use Coaching & Feedback as opposed to authority and demands with the franchise owners. For years the team emailed and bugged people, sharing data on who was NOT getting the budget reports to finance.

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Turnarounds and the Big Play | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

In the case of struggling Nabob Foods, two significant innovations facilitated the turnaround. While they played catch-up, we were already working on the next innovation. Firstly, by facilitating all aspects of Apple’s hardware and pre-installing its own operating system, he secured sustainable competitive insularity.

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How to Take a Social Venture to Scale

Harvard Business Review

For a social entrepreneur with an innovative solution, the holy grail is scaling it —that is, taking it to a level where the new approach operates efficiently and effectively to achieve significant mitigation of a social problem. Increasing numbers of social programs grow with revenue generated by their own operations.

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What Digital Change Demands of IT Organizations - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business Review

Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest franchise bottler of Coca-Cola beverages in the world, set the stage for this learning two years ago when it created centers of excellence (COEs) to drive transformation in each of its functional or process areas, including supply chain, distribution, commercial, finance, HR and IT.

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. Similarly, I recently met with Sanergy and Copia Global, Kenyan social enterprises using franchise models.

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Case Study: An Angel Investor with an Agenda

Harvard Business Review

That sort of money should allow you to open 10 new centers next year, not through franchising as you'd planned, but under your direct ownership and control. The director wasn't expecting her, but Gloria liked popping into the franchises unannounced to get an unvarnished view. Three million euros.". Hours were flexible.