According to the memo, the draft of the annual performance plan provided with the budget submission to OMB should include the strategies and performance goals for each management objective included in the draft agency strategic plan.
These drafts also should include priority areas for innovation and improvements in customer service not identified as a management objective in the agency strategic plan, including specific performance goals in:
– Critical mission support areas that identify the operational processes, human capital, training, skills, technology, information, and other management efforts most critical to achievement of mission-focused strategic objectives; and,
– Other major management improvement efforts and the agency contribution to government-wide management initiatives not identified as a management objective in the agency strategic plan, including specific performance goals.
The draft should include a management improvement summary that discusses agency efforts to deliver greater impact through innovation, increasing effectiveness and efficiency, and better customer service, including indicating where information on the points above is included throughout the performance plan, said OMB.
It added that once the new strategic plans and the 2015 budget are published, agencies will be expected to conduct strategic reviews of progress on each of the strategic objectives and management objectives included in the strategic plan, using a variety of sources of evidence.
