Business Performance Management and Strategy Execution Think of a road trip with your family. You first establish a destination, you determine the route to reach it, you estimate the time it’ll take, you program some stops in order to refill the gas tank, stretch your legs, amongst other things. Once you’re on your way, you’ll be able to validate if you’re on the correct
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION… Such a Critical Factor in Retail It is very common to hear in the US the 3 most important factors for business success are 1) location, 2) location, and 3) location. This is a definite indication of the importance of how location impacts the potential of your business to succeed. Any wonderful business initiative, inadequately located, will struggle, to say the
F ranchises play an important role in the American economy. According to the International Franchise Association1, there are over 760 thousand franchised businesses in the United States by January of 2018, as seen in the attached graph. Since the US economy recovered from the 2008 recession, the number of locations has grown steadily, with a total of 9% between Jan. 2013 and Jan. 2018;