About Us and Our Services.
We began as accountants.
We know numbers, but there is more to running a business than just numbers.
We know business, and through the use of our proprietary tools and methodologies, we are able to assist you in diagnosing the problems and helping you to focus on what is important.
As RAN ONE Certified Consultants, we focus solely on helping small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) achieve superior performance.
The SME business environment can best be described as challenging
• Intense competition
• Demanding customers
• Rapidly changing and expanding technologies
• Constant pressure on profit margins
• A limited and shifting labor pool
• Unique, family-owned/closely-held business issues
But, these challenges also lead to a myriad of opportunities not available to larger organizations. As experts in serving the SME market, RAN ONE Certified Consultants can help you turn your challenges into strengths. We can show you how to take full advantage of every opportunity through our comprehensive range of consulting solutions geared specifically to your market.
Business Strategy:
As a small-to-medium enterprise, you deal with a variety of strategic business issues on a daily basis. Everything from business expansion and new product or service introductions to competitive threats and shrinking margins can be a constant concern. All of these issues can have a major impact on revenue, market share and profitability.
If you are grappling with these issues and need advice on which direction your company should take, RAN ONE Certified Consultants can help you find the answers you need. Utilizing a variety of proprietary methodologies and tools, we can identify the key drivers impacting your business and help you make the right decisions to meet your business goals. Our business strategy solutions can give you a roadmap for navigating the internal and external factors that drive your company’s performance.
RAN ONE Certified Consultants can help you:
• Expand your business into new markets
• Launch new products and services
• Attract new customers and increase your share of pocket among existing customers
• Identify and respond to competitive threats
• Evaluate your current business strategy and establish a winning vision for the future
Organizational Design and Development Consulting:
Organizational structure and internal resources are vital components of any successful business. But in today’s market, they are particularly important to the small-to-medium sized enterprise. For businesses like yours, it is imperative that you have the right resources working together – organizationally focused on the company’s key business objectives – to sustain competitive advantage in the marketplace.
The current economic environment has made it difficult to find and retain high-quality people in your organization. RAN ONE Certified Consultants can not only help you with these human resources issues, but with your organizational structure and work environment as well. We have developed a comprehensive approach, specifically designed for SMEs, for evaluating all components of your business’ value chain, ensuring that all activities in the organization drive profitability and performance. We can also help you establish a client-focused culture that permeates all levels of your company, one that can have a significant, positive impact on your business.
RAN ONE Certified Consultants can help you:
• Establish an organizational structure properly aligned to meet your business objectives
• Conduct an activities audit to ensure core functions are value added and enhance organization’s performance
• Develop new sales channels to reach customers and prospects
• Build a customer-facing organization and customer-focused culture
• Attract, retain and develop high quality people
• Develop a work environment that nurtures innovation and productivity
Operations Consulting:
Continuous improvement in productivity is integral to sustaining the profitability and competitiveness of a company. The key to successful productivity improvement, however, is making such gains while also improving product/service quality, reducing cycle times, enhancing customer satisfaction and reducing costs. This can be a difficult task for a management team of an SME who must remain focused on the day-to-day operations of their business.
RAN ONE Certified Consultants can bring an objective, disciplined approach to driving productivity improvements throughout your organization – one that achieves results while addressing your key metrics. Using our proprietary analytical tools, we can focus on the major functional areas of your business or on specific departments or disciplines that require attention. Finance, Marketing & Sales, Products & Services, People, Culture and Systems & Processes are all activities within organizations that can have a significant impact on productivity. We can identify and address your issues associated with each area to improve your company’s performance and, ultimately, enhance business profitability.
RAN ONE Certified Consultants can help you:
• Baseline your operational performance for the key areas of your business
• Conduct gap analyses of your performance against industry benchmarks
• Identify strategic opportunities for productivity improvement across your organization’s major functional areas
• Redesign specific, mission-critical areas and core activities of your business to drive productivity gains
Financial Management Consulting:
Managing financial performance is critical for SMEs.
Economic cycles, seasonal demand, unforeseen capital expenditures and marketplace uncertainty all require businesses to maintain tight financial controls and, more importantly, embrace a comprehensive financial strategy.
If your firm needs advice and guidance on achieving and maintaining financial health, RAN ONE Certified Consultants can help. Our proprietary diagnostic tools can identify areas of financial weakness and, based on our findings, we can develop a financial management plan to minimize these risks and achieve your business goals. Whether it’s investment strategies, debt management, inventory turnover or strategic pricing decisions, our financial management solutions can improve your financial position and get you on the track to value creation.
RAN ONE Certified Consultants can help you:
• Craft a financial strategy that supports your business objectives and goals
• Implement financial controls to improve accountability and reporting
• Establish key profitability, leverage and activity metrics to track and forecast company performance
• Conduct a valuation of your business or of potential acquisition candidates
Family Business Management Consulting:
Family-owned and managed businesses have unique characteristics not found in large corporations. Issues relating to ownership succession, formalizing management structure, extending core competence beyond company founders, and funding business growth are all areas that concern the leaders of family businesses.
RAN ONE Certified Consultants are committed to helping family businesses succeed in the marketplace. We have tailored business solutions that utilize leading management theories to address the specific needs associated with running a family-owned business. In addition, we conduct pioneering syndicated research that identifies the evolving trends of global family businesses. This research allows us to anticipate the needs of small companies and develop strategies that help them succeed in their local market.
RAN ONE Certified Consultants can help you:
• Develop a business strategy best suited for your local market
• Establish a management structure and processes to optimize your business performance
• Prepare appropriate succession plans associated with leadership, ownership and management
• Conduct financial advisory services to assist you with planning, feasibility studies, valuations and other activities
Our Qualifications and Experience
Global Reach, Local Delivery.
RAN ONE Certified Consultants are members of RAN ONE, an international network of firms with operations in North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Our focus is on small-to-medium sized businesses with an emphasis on the unique needs of the family business sector. Through our expansive network, we have the strength and resources of a large, global organization while still maintaining our ability to serve the local market. Using our proprietary methodologies, research and knowledge resources, we deliver solutions that are actionable and have a positive impact on your performance and bottom line. We understand the environments in which family businesses operate and work to help you succeed in your local market.
Functional and Industry Experience
RAN ONE Certified Consultants have helped businesses around the world to develop and execute their business strategies in a broad range of industries, markets and regulatory environments. We are committed to the ongoing success of your business and will leverage our global understanding of key industries and family business trends to benefit you.
Areas of expertise include:
• Business strategy
• Organizational design
• Operations
• Financial performance
• Family business management
We also have extensive experience in the following industries:
• Veterinarians and other service professionals, including doctors, dentists, attorneys
• Retail and wholesale distribution, including jewelers, convenience stores and oil jobbers
• Manufacturing, including electronics and clean room equipment
Exceptional Service
Because RAN ONE Certified Consultants operate in local markets, we understand the challenges you face. We address real business issues and work side-by-side with you to craft practical solutions that address your current needs, with the flexibility to respond to your challenges in the future. And because we are a part of your communities, we are committed to providing exceptional service. Client relationships are of critical importance to us and we strive to develop long-term relationships with our clients that are based on trust, commitment and integrity.
Our Service Guarantee:
You will be completely satisfied, or your money back. In writing. Period.