Our Consulting Capabilities

MDP offers customized organization development interventions on a wide variety of topics. Based on the priority needs of the client, we assemble a group of highly experienced and skilled consultants that match the level and scope of work required. As a team, we collectively add value to our client processes based on our combined years in organizational performance management and deep industry knowledge.

Assessment:

ASSOCIATED TOPIC AREAS: Organizational Evaluation; Business Model Analysis; Asset Mapping; Survey Design; 360 Feedback; Community Needs Assessment (CNA); Feasibility Studies

MDP consultants collaborate with client stakeholders to conduct a full organizational analysis to assess all major infrastructure components, programs, products, and services, and provide you with a complete picture of your current organization with insights from systems thinking.  We use subject-matter experts to examine the strengths and opportunities that exist within your structure and benchmark those components to best-in-industry standards.  Our process also involves a market study of your local, regional, and global competitors to better know where you stand in the competitive environment.

Strategy:

ASSOCIATED TOPIC AREAS: Organizational Planning; Strategic Planning; Sustainability; Business Planning; Strategic Partnerships; Public-Private Partnerships

MDP specializes in client-centered, solutions-based strategy development, with deep industry knowledge.  We emphasize business strategies that are strengths-based, durable and responsive to market indicators and strategic drivers. We help our clients navigate inclusive processes and provide analytical frameworks for visioning and assessing strategic options.  We use powerful tools and models to push through multiple levels of engagement and strategy development and seek to build strategy capacity across the organization at the program, unit, and systems (enterprise) level, leading to growth and sustainability. 

Organizational Transformation:

ASSOCIATED TOPIC AREAS: Mergers & Acquisitions; Post-Merger Integration; Organizational Restructuring; Organizational Alignment; Information Technology (IT) Transformation; Culture Change

Achieving a competitive business model is the goal of every organization in order to stay viable in the competitive landscape.  MDP facilitates organization-wide transformation processes for whole organization adoption of organizational redesign that becomes a new way of doing business.  MDP builds-in a change management architecture to install the new business model articulating the new vision, facilitating robust stakeholder engagement, and building the required capabilities and culture adoption necessary to capture the benefits of the transformation from current-state to future-state.

Human Resource Development:

ASSOCIATED TOPIC AREAS: Team Building; Executive Coaching; Leadership Development; Workforce Development; Succession Planning; Employee Engagement

Human Resource Development (HRD) is a key component to long-term organizational success.  MDP will help you focus on building stronger leadership that impacts trust, culture, shared values, and engagement.  We assist with building stronger teams that develop shared group identity, shared ownership, and quality output. We will guide you through the competency assessment, planning and delivery phases of HRD strategies and programs that align with your organizational needs and project requirements.

Research and Evaluation:

ASSOCIATED TOPIC AREAS: Data Analytics; Outcomes & Performance; Focus Groups; Key Informant Interviews; Quasi-Experimental - Time Series Design; Longitudinal and Case Studies

MDP conducts research and evaluation projects to provide high quality data analysis for our clients.  MDP has extensive experience conducting studies on a national, institutional, community, and programmatic-level, applicable across a broad range of academic and social programs. The evaluation plan is guided by what our clients want to know in order to make informed management decisions, such as evidence of program performance and results, market trends and indicators, global competitive analysis, and other key internal and external data.