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Subway Is Losing a Franchise Every Twelve Hours. Here Is the Memo That Says Why.
Subway is losing a franchise every twelve hours. Jersey Mike's makes three times the revenue per location with one-sixth the stores. The brand stands for nothing beyond cheap sandwiches. Roark Capital loaded $5.7 billion in debt onto a company that needs reinvestment, not extraction. None of this is hidden. So why does the Marketing Canvas Method memo land differently than a consultant's slide deck? Because the method constrains bad advice, makes every recommendation falsifiable, and fits the portfolio to what the organisation can actually execute. Here is how it works — and the memo itself.
BlackBerry — A Brutal Clarity Memo on QNX
BlackBerry's QNX operating system runs in 195 million cars and is licensed by 24 of the top 25 automotive OEMs. Tesla and BYD chose to build their own. Three of the top ten OEMs are deciding right now whether to follow them. A two-page board memo on the $100M capital-allocation decision that cannot wait.
Nokia and the iPhone: The Memo Never Written, July 2007
What Nokia's CEO should have read on 30 July 2007 — one month after the iPhone launch. A Brutal Clarity Memo written using only data publicly available at the time. No hindsight permitted.