Comprehensive Development Strategies is a boutique management consulting firm specializing in organizational development and economic development advisory services with its principal office location in Houston, Texas and a national clientele. The company slogan is “where strategies mean sustainable solutions.” Our basic business premise is assisting organizations with identifying cost-savings opportunities by focusing on an organization’s greatest assets --- its People. But we’re not your average human resources consulting firm. Our niche is in our business platform --- to spot & fix people issues, as well address the surrounding circumstances to ensure sustainability. In other words, our business platform is comprehensive!
To advance our platform, we employ a highly skilled team of consultants with diverse backgrounds in organizational development, strategic and functional aspects of human resources, economic development, workforce development and labor & employment law. With our unique combination of professional experience, the consultants at Comprehensive Development Strategies work with clients to achieve the strategic
integration of people with organizational objectives for optimized organizational performance. More specifically, we utilize a results-focused process that encompasses a full-service methodology and approach to spot the pitfalls for mitigating legal claims, to achieve consistency in workflow processes and policy enforcement, to avert compliance failures and to balance efficiency measures with effective outcomes. In the economic development context, our business model links policy, planning, budgeting and performance management to ensure that projects are planned through strategic funding identification methods and with the purpose of integrating the essential functions of government with economic development. Our lead consultant in economic development matters is a Certified Economic Development Finance Professional (CEDFP) with the National Development Council and has experience leading an economic development department, as well as working with numerous governmental entities on the planning and implementation of large and small projects and programs.
We are a woman-owned business and have been certified as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) through the Houston Minority Supplier Development Council (HMSDC). We also have been certified as a Small Business Enterprise (SBE) with the Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority (METRO) and certified as an Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) with the State of Texas. For federal contracting purposes, we’re also listed in the CCR database.
Comprehensive Development Strategies is also a member of the Greater Houston Partnership (GHP). Through the GHP’s B2B Member Program, we’re offering a FREE assessment of your organization’s pay practices to determine where you may be able to achieve immediate cost-savings in non-base pay categories. To take advantage of this free assessment, click here Someone on our staff will contact you promptly discuss some of the preliminary cost-savings opportunities based on your responses to the survey.
Also, visit the Comprehensive Development Strategies Blog on WordPress to get ideas on ways your organization can improve performance through effective cost-savings strategies.
