Open Seas Consultancy
Operational excellence for healthcare, biotech, and academic institutions in transition.
OSC helps organizations restore clarity, alignment, and momentum when priorities are shifting, teams are fragmented, or systems are no longer supporting the mission.
Every engagement begins with a complimentary discovery conversation. From there, we do the exploratory work needed to understand your environment and shape an approach that is practical, targeted, and built toward your goals.
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Enterprise transformation and Lean integration enabling $3.2M in savings and a 25% reduction in partnership expenditures.
Commercial and technical operations support, cross-functional alignment, risk work across 40,000+ indirect materials.
Financial and operational transformation across 32–35 departments, improving reporting consistency and long-term visibility.
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Executive program support, commercial alignment, and preparing the organization for National Meeting success.
Enterprise coordination including systemwide Lean integration and cost stewardship.
Integrated quality partner support across healthcare, higher education, manufacturing, and nonprofit environments.
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Accreditation-aligned, competency-based learning design tied to measurable learner outcomes.
Graduate-facing operational excellence lectures requested by faculty.
Institutional complexity experience across a high-stakes academic medicine environment.
Continuous SME partnership and curriculum-shaped operational design.
Cross-department transformation and readiness work in academic medicine.
Governance and workflow optimization expanding program capacity by 30%.
Healthcare transformation and cost stewardship.
Institutional and academic medicine transformation.
Commercial and technical operations support.
Organizations in transition needing structured execution support.
Leaders overseeing complex, multi-department transformation work.
Teams responsible for commercial readiness, program delivery, or capability-building.
Selected Work
Selected Work Across OSC and Steven's Operating History
For visitors who prefer to browse directly, here is the broader spread of work that informs OSC’s approach.
Sutter Health
Healthcare transformation, Lean integration, and contract optimization enabling $3.2M in savings and a 25% reduction in partnership expenditures.
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Financial and operational transformation across 32–35 departments, improving reporting consistency across a $7.8B+ portfolio.
Kite Pharma
Commercial and technical operations support spanning executive program support, automation prioritization, risk evaluation across 40,000+ indirect materials, and National Meeting readiness.
Western Governors University
Competency-based, accreditation-aware learning design translating operational excellence into practical instructional assets.
Open Seas Consultancy
Cross-sector operational excellence work including 30% program capacity expansion, 22% throughput improvement, 40% lower changeover time, and $2.5M in annual savings.
USC / Keck Graduate Institute
Graduate-level operational excellence instruction alongside advisory and consulting work.
Process
How Engagements Begin
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Complimentary Discovery Conversation
We start by understanding your goals, constraints, stakeholders, and operating realities.
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Exploratory Work
We assess what is actually happening so the subject matter is relevant and the next recommendation is worth the effort.
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Build Toward Targets
Once the problem is clearer, we shape the right path forward — advisory support, transformation, targeted training, or commercial-program support.
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Stay Adaptive
Some engagements require an embedded partner through change. Others need one well-timed intervention. OSC supports both.
Learning & Development
One-Off, Targeted Trainings Are Part of the Model
Some clients need broader operational support. Others need one focused intervention. OSC offers one-off trainings and practical workshops shaped by exploratory work so the subject matter is relevant to the audience, the current pressure, and the outcome you want from the session.
Steven’s materials support this through WGU SME work and graduate operational-excellence instruction with USC and Keck Graduate Institute.
About OSC
Led by Steven Pervez, PMP, LSSBB
Steven Pervez is a strategy, transformation, and operational excellence leader with experience spanning healthcare, biotech, higher education, and cross-functional improvement work. His materials emphasize stabilizing organizations in transition, connecting siloed teams, and helping leaders turn priorities into durable operational outcomes.
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