Ready for Next believes in a holistic approach to supporting business owners and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team of professionals. We meet owners where they are to ensure all their needs and goals are met.
Our experience has shown business owners tend to fall into one of three categories when it comes to value acceleration and transition planning: exploring, pivoting or triggering. However, owning a business isn’t always that cut and dry. Business owners have been know to move between these categories depending on various factors.
No matter where you are in your entrepreneurial journey we have what you need.
Ready for Next Owner Readiness Hub
The RFN Owner Readiness Hub is a business owner’s one stop for information, resources and tools related to building a best-in-class business with transferable enterprise value and a plan for how to monetize their investment in the business.
The Owner Readiness Hub is an online portal designed with a bias for action to help business owners with actionable tips and tools that can be introduced into their business for immediate results.
If you haven’t already, or want to see if your position has changed, review these statements and rate your answers to determine your stage: exploring, pivoting or triggering.
Are you an exploring, pivoting or triggering business owner?
exploring
5+ years until transitionexploring
Exploring options and possibilities is often the first step in any big decision. Increasing your understanding and knowledge about your business’ potential and how to grow its value is the crux of this part of your journey to achieve higher valuation and transition-readiness.pivoting
18 months to 5 years to transitionpivoting
Pivoting owners are ready to invest in optimizing business value and achieving transition-readiness. Both are complex and require a trained professional to guide you on your journey. It is time to pivot into action and reach the next level of exceptional performance.
triggering
18 months or lesstriggering
Change can happen quickly, triggering an owner into action. Sometimes owners are ready to transition but their businesses are not transition-ready. The reasons for rapidly accelerating the transition timeline are diverse. You require a professional to help you make the best decisions possible under the circumstances.
Business Owner Options
Ready for Next knows being a business owner means often having too little time in the day to get everything that needs doing done. Our solutions are designed to utilize your time in the most effective and impactful way possible.
We believe in continuous improvement and we operate with a bias for action.
what people are saying
“Your ability to listen and work with us to develop plans that are customized to our reality- not just cookie cutter solutions. You bring your diversity in backgrounds to the engagement, complementing each other. This allows you to look not only at the business processes, but at the people behind the business.”
“We at BLDM used to run our business in a traditional way in which we would follow our year-long budget and goals. Ready for Next opened our eyes to look further than our year-long goals by writing, implementing and following a five-year business plan in which all the stakeholders need to have an ownership attitude.”
“Yesterday’s meeting was a breakthrough moment for me and my brothers. Consensus. Amazing!”