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February 2010Improving PerformanceSECTION VII – IMPROVING PERFORMANCEThe Department of the Navy continues its commitment to building a performancebased culture and has actively developed process improvements to improve andmeasure performance. Working in cooperation with the DoD enterprise, we willcontinue to improve performance measurement and budget reporting and tostrengthen links between performance and budget. DON successes as well as majorongoing initiatives are addressed in this section.TRANSFORMATION MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTUREIn July 2009, DON issued a report to Congress on initiatives in BusinessTransformation which summarized the progress and evolution of businesstransformation efforts. The Department created a new senior position, DeputyUnder Secretary of the Navy for Business Operations and Transformation who alsoserves as the DON Deputy Chief Management Officer (DCMO). The DCMO hasbeen given several prominent coordinating roles including designing DON’sbusiness transformation strategy, identifying opportunities to streamline andimprove core business processes, and enabling DON leadership to manage businessprocesses using key metrics. The Business Operations and Transformation Office’sinitial efforts have been focused in three areas: leveraging and integrating existingorganizational processes to improve business operations, defining enterprisepolicies for business processes and establishing and monitoring business valuemetrics.A DON business transformation plan will be developed to serve as a roadmap fromthe existing suite of business systems to the future target environment of improvedsystems. The future environment will be charted using a portfolio managementprocess and link existing business systems to the phasing‐in of ERP. Transformationefforts build upon many of the initiatives underway in various business missionareas.1FY 2011 Department of the Navy Budget 7‐1