The team initiated the work by investigating the client environment to understand the challenges and the client’s strategic objectives. Assessing the client’s market position was key and BSG did so by gathering information from various sources such as management reports, financial systems, dealer and customer interviews and industry trends.

BSG identified that while the client had a defined value proposition, they had no clear strategy to guide the franchise and support execution. This, coupled with a low-touch franchise model, had resulted in a number of issues within the franchise relating to processes, capacity, geographic footprint, governance and marketing.

Once the factors hindering the franchise operations and growth had been identified, BSG defined a strategic vision and mission for the client and provided a recommendation to implement a target franchise model to address pain points and future growth initiatives. BSG supported this recommendation with a financial model targeting the strategic drivers, aligned to the vision and franchise model, to forecast the profitability of the franchise in various scenarios. The final piece of the recommendation was the execution roadmap outlining the detailed steps needed to take the strategic vision from concept to reality – with associated costing, roles and responsibilities.

Certain aspects during the engagement were identified as quick wins and prior to the closure of the project, BSG was able to deliver a number of these items such as a revised franchisee on-boarding process, an updated franchise agreement and an operating manual outline to begin the execution roadmap drive.