Data-driven decision making, analytics strategy, and business intelligence for franchise operations.
I started my career at Argos. This was 25 years ago. Before you could buy online. Before buy-online-collect-later. The sale happened if the product was physically in the shop, and did not happen if it wasn’t. The stores had small warehouses. The catalogue had thousands of SKUs. The maths was tight — you could not …
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Every successful franchise I’ve worked with has one thing in common. It isn’t the slickest technology stack or the most sophisticated analytics platform. It’s great people. People who understand their customers. People who know how to operate under pressure. People who’ve built businesses through graft, instinct, and hard-won experience. So when I talk about data …
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