The Plight of the Semi-Retired Founder: When Successors Struggle

Many BDM clients are businesses taken over and run by "successors" while the "founders" semi-retire and become absentee owners. It is a common and often painful transition.

The Dysfunction

The concerned founder often sees dysfunction created by the successors in their absence. The business that ran smoothly on the founder's street smarts suddenly starts leaking profit when handed to the next generation.

The Need for Intervention

The founder brings in BDM to sort out this dysfunction and establish controls. The solution is not for the founder to return to the daily grind, but to install the systems the successors need to manage effectively.

The Ideal Client

These kind of family-owned businesses are ideal clients for the BDM approach to restore profitability. The emotional dynamics are complex, but the operational solutions — standard operating procedures and statistical process analysis — are clear.

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