The Office of Management and Budget has released its
president’s management agenda scorecard for the first
quarter of fiscal 2006, saying federal agencies have
improved their management practices, resulting in
quantifiable savings and better service.
It said 40 percent of agency management disciplines are
acceptable — are green on the traffic-light style
scorecard – and 20 percent remain unacceptable — are
rated red.
The Department of Labor continues to lead the pack with
green scores in all five rated areas: human capital,
competitive sourcing, financial performance, e-government,
and budget and performance integration. NASA and the
National Science Foundation have four green scores each.
That is in contrast to the Department of Veterans Affairs,
whose only non-red rating is a yellow for human capital.
E-government was the biggest area for improvement where
eight of 26 agencies improved after six were downgraded
in the previous scorecard, including the Departments of
Interior and State, which bounced back. Three agencies —
Housing and Urban Development, the Environmental Protection
Agency, and NASA — joined the Department of Labor, the
Small Business Administration and the National Science
Foundation in receiving green ratings on the initiative.
Financial performance continues to show the most red — 17
red scores and eight in the green, after the General
Services Administration and Department of Energy dropped
from green to red. However, most agencies are rated green
for progress in that initiative.
OMB said other longer-term PMA-related initiatives showed
progress, including job competition studies over the past
three years that when implemented could save $900 million
each year when implemented (federal unions say such
estimates are over-inflated), an inventory of real property
assets that could lead to disposing of $9 billion of assets
by 2009, and nearly 800 programs that have developed plans
to improve performance that were made public.
Agencies “are clearly defining what their management
practices should be, and the benefits that should result
from these new practices, and then being held accountable
for achieving them,” said OMB Deputy Director for Management
Clay Johnson.
< The latest scorecard can be found here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/results/agenda/scorecard.html
