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President George W. Bush meets with Dan Bartlett, center, and Josh Bolten in the Oval Office Jan. 9, 2003.  White House photo by Eric Draper.
The Deputy Director for Mgmt
PMA updates, best practices, and general information.
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Grading Implementation of the PMA.
Human Capital
Initiative updates, best practices, and general information.
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Initiative updates, best practices, and general information.
Improving Financial Performance
Initiative updates, best practices, and general information.
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Initiative updates, best practices, and general information.
Performance Improvement
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Sharing Best Practices
Stories of achieving breaktrough results in government.
The President's Management Council

Letter from Clay Johnson - February 2004

The most recent scorecard used to assess implementation of the President's Management Agenda shows that we have made real progress towards becoming results oriented.

  • We have significantly improved our performance in about half of the 130 management areas that are the focus of the PMA, up from just 15 percent two years ago. (Twenty-six agencies x five-government areas in need of management improvement, for a total of 130 scores.)
  • We improved in 28 areas in 2003, versus 14 in 2002, and achieved six additional green scores in 2003, versus only 2 in 2002.

Agencies are taking ownership of the President's Management Agenda to make lasting management improvements. We are beginning to more responsibly account for the people's money and maximize the value of our human resources. We're using competitive sourcing to perform commercial activities at the best value to the taxpayer and bringing service delivery and IT management to new levels. Perhaps most importantly, we're making significant budget and management decisions based on meaningful information about how programs are performing, and if programs aren't performing as intended, we're figuring out what to do about it.

The Department of Energy and the Office of Personnel Management have made the most progress since the launch of the President's Management Agenda in August 2001: neither has a red condition. These agencies are leading the pack with regard to management improvement and are furthest along to becoming the well managed, results-oriented organizations we want the whole government to become.

Congratulations to NASA (Sean O'Keefe, Fred Gregory, Vicki Novak and Steve Isakowitz) for moving to green on both Human Capital and Budget and Performance Integration; NASA is the first agency to get to green on these two initiatives, and NASA and NSF are the only two agencies with 2 green status scores. The Department of Education (Rod Paige and Jack Martin) moved to green for Financial Management, while OPM (Kay James, Clarence Crawford and Norman Enger) moved to green on EGov. We will soon be helping NASA, Education, and OPM celebrate these notable results.

Yours truly,
Clay Johnson

Clay Johnson Reports on Status of PMA - February, 2004
Clay Johnson Reports on Status of PMA - November, 2003
Clay Johnson Reports on Status of PMA - July, 2003
Clay Johnson Reports on Status of PMA - May, 2003
Mark W. Everson Reports on the Status of the PMA - December 1, 2002
Mark W. Everson Reports on the Status of the PMA - September 1, 2002

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