Building Competitive Growth Companies
By Craig Slavin

THEFRANCHISEARCHITECTS can help you realize the goal of becoming a competitive growth organization. We provide businesses of all sizes and types with the resources and experience it takes to develop and implement sound strategies for long-term competitive growth through franchising.

As competition intensifies and precious market share is aggressively sought, an increasing number of corporate CEOs and small business owners are turning to what the United States Department of Commerce has labeled, "the most efficient and effective" alternative of business expansion available today: franchising and/or "indirect channels of distribution".

Franchising can be a powerful way to penetrate markets--with virtually any product or service. In addition, successful franchisors have discovered that franchising provides the most cost-effective method of obtaining outside capital for further expansion while attracting motivated people to their organization.

However, successful growth companies know something that unsuccessful ones do not:

Expansion is only one aspect of a complex and challenging process.

It is not an end in itself.

The distinction between a business which has complied with franchise regulations and a highly competitive growth organization--an organization that completely understands all the critical components necessary to expand and develop new markets--is crucial. This point cannot be over-emphasized.

Our approach is much different than a short-term, "assembly-line process" that results in a franchise--without direction and without an effective delivery system. We have built our combined reputations by creating fundamentally sound growth strategies that use franchising as a powerful means to grow.

Without this broad-based approach, future expansion cannot succeed. Only by understanding the building process of a sound growth organization can one implement a comprehensive franchise plan with the necessary precision, skill and marketing know-how to realize the tremendous effectiveness of franchising.

Our goal is to help you manage your enterprise through this long-term process to sustain a highly distinctive and competitive advantage for continued expansion. Our ability to accomplish this for many successful businesses has been demonstrated in more than 40 industries and for private and public companies of all sizes, including smaller, emerging, companies.

Each of our many clients have benefited from our personal service, ability to quickly understand their business and our ability to help them take advantage of market opportunities for their products and services.

In this web-site, we will share with you the basic elements of creating a highly competitive growth organization and explain why we are the best choice to help structure your organization for short-term and long-term success.

THEFRANCHISEARCHITECTS has the resources, know-how and experience to help your business grow and prosper.

It takes powerful and experienced skills to develop and build a competitive growth organization. Sound advice, strategic planning, education and training, organizational and program design, and computer information systems are among the many areas where a high degree of skill is necessary for your success. In addition, the ability to coordinate and focus these skills in the most effective and efficient way is crucial.

That's why the "do-it-yourself approach" or advice from many franchise consultants usually leads to failure or costly low-impact programs. Who then do you turn to for the knowledge and wide range of services it takes to develop a competitive growth organization?

THEFRANCHISEARCHITECTS consulting practice is comprised of highly experienced and disciplined professionals and strong supporting organizations.

Our comprehensive and proven EightPHASE Development Process , entitled,   FRANCHISEARCHITECTURE is effective and serves as the "core architecture" for the expansion programs for hundreds of worldwide organizations. To develop and implement a competitive strategy that is right for you, we provide both close, personal service and the proper mix of resources.

Our professionals have solid practical and technical business experience. Collectively, our organizations have helped hundreds of companies complete the steps necessary to expand their operations: from assessing market opportunities and establishing training programs and formats to site selection and long-range planning.

Our professionals know how to interpret and evaluate complex transactions and issues. We are adept at explaining and discussing key issues in management's own language. We bring objectivity and a fresh perspective to each assignment, helping to identify strengths and weaknesses and provide practical solutions that work.

We derive our skills from many decades of specialized involvement with industries of every kind--retailing, manufacturing, service, wholesale distribution, high technology, lodging, recreation, food service and many more.

Simply stated, we believe that no other management, marketing or consulting firm can match our extensive resources and deliver the kind of high-quality professional services it takes to help your franchise organization grow.