Amid fiscal realities, key leadership attributes offer path to increased effectiveness and efficiency.
Adopt formal processes and provide incentives to make efficiency a systematic and aggressive activity within your agency. To institutionalize efficiency, agencies must create organizational, process and cultural mechanisms that support this goal on an ongoing basis.
Adopt formal processes and provide incentives to make efficiency a systematic and aggressive activity within your agency. To institutionalize efficiency, agencies must create organizational, process and cultural mechanisms that support this goal on an ongoing basis.
By researching the lessons learned from past government downsizing and through a series of recent workshops with current and former government executives, Booz Allen Hamilton identified seven common practices that the most successful public-sector leaders are using to improve effectiveness and efficiency despite major budget cuts.
“Today’s budget realities provide a catalyst and opportunity to drive innovation and improve overall agency effectiveness,” said Booz Allen Executive Vice President Pat Peck. “These shared managerial practices can help agency leaders meet today’s challenges head-on to achieve results and create a more efficient, effective government for the 21st Century.”