Stevens Consulting works collaboratively with organizations to help them use their business knowledge as effectively as possible.

Works with you to assess organizational effectiveness and map out work to enhance it.
Helps your organization develop its capacity to handle new challenges by working with intact work groups on real problems.
Interventions address interconnected factors that affect success: business strategy, process and job design, organizational structure, and human dynamics.

Stevens Consulting has a particular focus on supply chain management.




Strategic Interventions
to understand and manage relationships between and within the organization and its environment:

Clarify strategy and work needed to support goals
Facilitate processes to deepen understanding of the organization’s environment
Align work with strategy
Develop inter-organizational relationships and project structures
Understand stakeholder interests
Establish decision-making methods
Develop learning organizations
Tap into tacit knowledge to improve performance
Unleash creative energy
Establish and manage strategic alliances
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Techno-structural Interventions
to clarify goals and tasks and improve control and coordination between departments and across authority levels:

Job and process design
Remove bottlenecks, eliminate re-work and improve cycle time
Define goals, roles, and responsibilities considering the needs of the organization as a whole
Improve project management
Develop an appreciation of the different kinds of problems – and the different management challenges they pose
Establish project gateways that facilitate readiness to move to the next phase
Heighten awareness of risk to better address it
Organizational assessments
Engage the organization in work to enhance its understanding of its current situation as a necessary foundation for a change process
Training
Develop systemic thinking
Help staff understand their roles and responsibilities and how they interrelate with those of others

Process Interventions
to improve working relationships, as part of work on organizational issues

Improving organizational performance
Develop understanding of dynamics that impede or facilitate productive working relationships
Team building
Improve work in cross-functional teams or between departments, e.g., operations and staff
Fostering collaborative work
Use conflict to better understand business issues and competing interests
Establish disputes resolution methods that strengthen decision-making capability
Coaching
Help people improve performance by deepening appreciation of how their role relates to others
Help people transition from technical or staff roles to management