Obama's Chief Performance Officer

President Obama is trying to make his government synonymous with the words efficient, effective, and goal-oriented. How? By creating a Chief Performance Officer. Jeff Zients, formerly of the Advisory Board Company and the Corporate Executive Board, has been named to the position. Part of the CPOs job is to implement a performance management system that people will actually use.

The test of a performance management system is whether it is used…the current approach fails this test. Congress doesn’t use it. Agencies don’t use it. And it doesn’t produce meaningful information for the public.”

Sounds like quite the task. Governments aren’t exactly the quickest moving and most innovative when it comes to changing the way things are done. Check out the rest of the article to learn more.