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FINANCE MONTHLY M&A AWARDS 2020 113 and accommodating legacy variables and operational ambiguity, the optimal design and alignment of roles, processes, accountabilities, rewards and relationships to deliver and enhance the organisational performance. • Customer Foundation - Repeat purchase customers are the only basis of sustainable commercial success. This foundation for growth is built on the fundamental principal of knowing your customer. Such insight allows you to establish competitive advantage through the optimisation of customer, product, brand, service, pricing and sales channels. RAND Strategy has built a market leading core competence in TRANSACTION STRATEGY; specifically: • Acquisition sourcing • Commercial and operational due diligence • Investment value creation • Exit planning • Vendor due diligence • Post-merger integration FIRM PROFILE RAND Strategy is an African advisory firm developing local solutions, knowledge and capabilities through the application of international experience, methodologies and approaches. We define strategy as: ‘The optimum allocation of appropriate and scarce resources to ensure an organisation achieves its full potential’ In most organisations the scarcity of resources resides in human capability and investment capital. Poor application of these vital ingredients makes the goal of sustainable and winning growth difficult to achieve. Our mission is to partner with our clients in achieving their full potential within the African business environment through a pragmatic mix of: • Rigorous analysis • Strategy development • Solution determination • Results based implementation DIFERENTIATORS RAND Strategy is differentiated by… • Client outcomes which accelerate growth and achieve full potential • A zealous focus on measurable results • Deep international capabilities and methodologies • Extensive sector experience • A data driven approach to advise • Implementation follows and founds strategy • Transaction support is in our DNA • Senior staff have considerable non-consulting work experience ‘RAND Strategy seeks to work with organisations and leaders intent on ‘winning’ CAPABILITIES RAND Strategy has an evolved set of practice areas; specifically: • Strategy - Strategy informs the decisions of the leadership group, helping them to allocate appropriate capital, staff and intellectual resources to achieve the optimum organisational outcomes. • Transactions - Often the logical consequence of growth aspirations, transactions ensure the compelling desire to create and capture accelerated growth value • Operations - The systematic utilisation of diagnostic tools and methodologies to uncover performance improvement opportunities which deliver sustainable bottom line leverage • Organisations - Flowing directly from corporate strategy CONTACT T: +27 (0) 11 061 0000 F: +27 (0) 11 061 0001 E: enquiries@randstrategy.com