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Promising Practices
Video: OMB Controller on modernizing government with fewer resources
- By Mark Micheli
- August 29, 2012
- Comments
Excellence in Government
An excerpt:
“How do you modernize an environment where the resource base is declining? Well, you’ve got to be smart and strategic about your investments. In particular...you’ve got to eliminate unnecessary costs and non-performing investments...On one side, we’ve got to modernize and invest in new ways of doing business and on the other side we’ve got to tackle the underlying inefficiencies that often exist within our government.
Whether it’s cutting down on improper payments, eliminating expensive high-risk contracts or managing our real estate more effectively. There are significant opportunities [to cut costs] and we see it throughout our entire government operational footprint. There are always opportunities to do things more efficiently, to reduce errors, to reduce waste. The demand on us to do this has never been higher. Because ...we have to modernize, we have to meet this mission and we have to do so on a declining budget and resource base.”
Mark Micheli writes Excellence in Government’s Promising Practices blog and serves as the program manager of the Government Business Council. Prior to his current roles, he worked as a management consultant on national security and emergency management issues with the US Treasury Department. He’s worked as a political research analyst, a reporter for the Des Moines Register at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland and is a graduate of the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs. He studied at Drake University where he has degrees in Magazine Journalism, Political Science and History.
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