Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

But if you don’t have a clear way to monetize your product and/or service, you’ll never turn your hobby into a long-term, sustainable business. Other options for selling your product include leasing, crowdsourcing, franchising, and ad-revenue. What do you want your business to achieve in the long-term?

How To 66

How To Long-term Short-term Franchising 66

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation? How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise?

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 15

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Term loans , SBA loans , lines of credit and invoice financing are just a few of the options available to small business owners. The bad news is that you can't get back the time you spent working on any projects for this client. As your experience grows you'll be able to charge more per hour or project.

Tips 95

Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation? How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise?

Short-term 11

Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

The really great franchises will make a bunch of money; the crummy franchises will lose money; and they'll have rich owners who can absorb that and who have plans and hopes and dreams that someday they can make money. All of those things are right for the long-term. It's not a guarantee.

Franchising 8

Franchising Airlines Short-term Long-term 8

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Johnson & Johnson’s worldwide franchise managers, for instance, may have to get country managers, whom they do not directly supervise, to commit to a strategic marketing or purchasing plan. It is, in short, a watershed event. In a hierarchical organization, leaders can more easily give orders and expect people to respond.

Telecommunications 111

Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Like most of the big hoteliers, however, Otto owned few of those properties; instead it franchised and managed them, with the bulk of the real estate owned by independent companies that licensed Otto’s brands. The addition of Beekman’s eight brands had increased the number now under Otto’s umbrella to 21.

Hotels 8

Hotels Case Study Brand Price 8