Return to Article: Agencies' e-gov grades slump
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"... Defense, Justice and Transportation were downgraded to the failing mark of red." This is my experience in DoD. What I have done electronically in funds distribution that used to take three days tops is now taking over three weeks. The number of layers in the transfer of funds electronically has grown exponentially and it now if more efficient to go back to the old paper forms than to use electronic transfers. However, no one in management seems to care because it only impacts the grunts.
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In my humble opinion, the overemphasis on a PMA scorecard and that other OMB project called PART, has done more damage to the federal government than any other OMB/OPM project I can recall in almost 20 years of federal service.
The fact that every agency is green or yellow in Human Capital management just makes me laugh out loud.
Trying to achieve good programs by embarrassing agencies with widely publicized report cards is not a very effective way to achieve results. If it were, student grades would be published in newspapers. The fact that the folks scoring these activities achieve miserable results themselves says a lot about these programs. The better way to achieve great HR programs is for OPM to model a good program and to mentor other agencies -- but they are not. The reality is that OPM doesn't take a leadership role in this area.
And to put so much emphasis on e-government in the same breath as human capital and financial management is just silly -- who cares if your agency has great e-government programs if it is broke and a miserable place to work!
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