The Deputy Director for Mgmt PMA updates, best practices, and general information. Scorecard Grading Implementation of the PMA. Human Capital Initiative updates, best practices, and general information. Commercial Services Management Initiative updates, best practices, and general information. Improving Financial Performance Initiative updates, best practices, and general information. E-Gov Initiative updates, best practices, and general information. Performance Improvement Initiative updates, best practices, and general information. Sharing Best Practices Stories of achieving breaktrough results in government.

Department Updates HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT - Alphonso Jackson The President's Management Agenda Is On Target At HUD March 31, 2003 - Alphonso Jackson writes, "We are making real progress on HUD's most significant challenges." SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - Melanie Sabelhaus Using the President's Management Agenda to Empower Entrepreneurs March 31, 2003 - Melanie Sabelhaus writes, "The Small Business Administration (SBA) has struggled to bring about effective management reform. While the General Accounting Office and our own Inspector General have cited several management challenges facing the agency in future, planned responses to date have fallen short at implementation's doorstep. However, things are starting to change at SBA. Using the President's Management Agenda (PMA) as our framework, we are beginning to really address some of the challenges that the agency faces." DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS - Leo Mackay Implementing Reform at VA: The First Year February 21, 2003 - Leo Mackay writes, "VA's health care delivery model was designed and built decades ago, when inpatient care was the norm. Reflecting a shift to outpatient care nationwide, today's VA emphasizes a continuum of care provided within an integrated regional or network-based system." THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION - James Lockhart The President's Management Agenda: Getting to Green February 21, 2003 - James Lockhart reports, "With status grades of four yellows and only one red, Social Security is a PMA leader, but we realize that we have a long way to go to get to green. Everything we are doing will keep the focus on our overriding goal- to produce results for the American public by improving service and stewardship." NASA - Scott Pace NASA Implements the President's Management Agenda February 21, 2003 - Scott Pace reports, "To support our work on the President's Management Agenda, NASA has developed an initiative titled 'Freedom To Manage (F2M),' whose purpose is to stimulate long-term organizational change in support of the President's Management Agenda." DEPARTMENT OF STATE - Grant S. Green, Jr. The "Diplomatic Readiness Initiative" - A Human Capital Success Story December 1, 2002 - Grant S. Green, Jr. writes, "At the State Department, what we call our 'Diplomatic Readiness Initiative' is at the heart of our efforts on the strategic use of human capital. Our goal in this initiative is to expand and strengthen our workforce, and make it more diverse in the process." DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - Steve Griles Interior Addresses its Greatest Management Challenges December 1, 2002 - Steve Griles reports, "With 70,000 employees scattered over 2,500 office locations, Interior knew it needed a way to get everyone pulling together when OMB's multi-colored management scorecard arrived on Secretary Norton's desk." DEPARTMENT OF LABOR - D. Cameron Findlay Making the President’s Management Agenda Work at Labor December 1, 2002 - D. Cameron Findlay writes, "To ensure capable executive leadership for the future, we have implemented a highly successful MBA Outreach Program to recruit MBA graduates to join Labor. Under this program, we are aggressively recruiting both recent MBA graduates interested in public service and mid-level and management-level MBAs seeking a career change." DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Claude Allen HHS Addresses its Greatest Management Challenges October 18, 2002 - Claude Allen writes, "HHS is enormous. It touches the life of every American every day with a broad array of services . . . Managing all of these services under many different umbrellas is a challenge, but we are trying to engrain in everyone here that no matter what our job is in the Department, we are all part of "one HHS." The President's Management Agenda has helped push us in this direction, and we are succeeding already in many aspects of the Agenda. But we’ve had to overcome significant challenges in order to make progress." DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY - Bruce Carnes Securing America's Energy Supply Through the President's Management Agenda October 18, 2002 - Bruce Carnes reports, "In May 2001, the President issued the National Energy Policy. We knew that in order to implement the policy successfully, the Department of Energy would have to overcome major management challenges and become a high performing, flexible organization with the managerial and technical capabilities to achieve the President’s vision. We are using the President’s Management Agenda (PMA) and the Executive Branch Management Scorecard to do that." DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - Sam Bodman Implementing Reform at Commerce: The First Year September 1, 2002 - Sam Bodman writes, "Shortly after President Bush issued his plan for management reform, it was clear that achieving success at Commerce rested on obtaining the active involvement of our senior management team as early as possible. Although a strong framework of career employees with responsibility for overseeing administrative functions was already in place, we knew that the sea change called for under the President's Management Agenda could be brought about only by political appointees and careerists working together collaboratively." DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE - David Chu The President's Management Agenda Goes To War September 1, 2002 - Perhaps no other department has been more directly affected by the events of September 11th than the Department of Defense. In addition to fighting a war, DOD is undergoing massive transformational changes and is undertaking a large renovation of the Pentagon itself. Nonetheless, DOD has made strong strides in implementing the President's Management Agenda. For example, the Department has established a Senior Steering Group, comprised of SES and General/Flag officer representatives from the services and DOD components, to facilitate the implementation of the PMA. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY - Linda Fisher Promoting the President's Management Agenda at EPA September 1, 2002 - Linda Fisher reports, "In May 2002, Governor Whitman and I met with all of EPA's members of the Senior Executive Service to reinforce our common commitment to the President's Management Agenda. Since then the Agency's leaders have been making great progress in a number of areas."

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