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OMB’S NO. 1 WORKPLACE: REWARDS AT THE
EPICENTER
When Clay Johnson, deputy director for management
at the Office of Management and Budget, addressed a meeting of petulant,
stressed-out senior staff on a recent morning this month, he joked,
“As bad as it seems now, just remember: This is the best place to
work in government.”
PERFORMANCE MEASURES, PRACTICES INCREASE EFFECTIVENESS,
GAO FINDS
Despite having an abundance of performance
measures to determine effectiveness, agency managers generally do not
use them to inform their decisions any more than they did several years
ago. But one group of agencies identified in a Government Accountability
Office report has demonstrated that performance measures and practices
can improve effectiveness.
AGENCIES RECOGNIZED FOR INNOVATIONS IN MANAGEMENT OF REAL
PROPERTY
As the Bush administration presses for reforms in
federal real-property management, the General Services Administration
has announced the latest award winners in its Real Property Award
Program for innovative and best practices. Teams from the Veterans
Affairs Department, the Treasury Department, the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp. and GSA were awarded $10,000 each by an independent
panel
OUNCE OF PLANNING WORTH POUND OF CURE IN PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
Too often, government projects careen off course
and over budget. With their projects milling about like bumper cars in
an arcade, agency leaders wonder where they went wrong. Most likely,
they went off track at the very beginning because of a lack of careful
planning, said Stephen Hawald, a consultant with Robbins-Gioia LLC of
Alexandria, Va., which provides program management services to
government agencies.
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