Building the Enterprise - Booz Allen Hamilton

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES TOMAKE OUR GOVERNMENT MOREEFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVEAdopting an enterprise framework will allowour government to achieve the results thatthe American people demand and positionit to tackle the major challenges facing thenation. It also will enable government tobetter husband its resources and reduce programmaticfragmentation and overlap. To that end, we have identifiednine overarching strategies that will provide the infrastructureand impetus to take the enterprise approachto scale and ensure that it is not seen or treated as the petproject of one administration and thus become the firstvictim of the next.In proposing these strategies, the Partnership forPublic Service and Booz Allen Hamilton consulted withmore than 50 current and former public officials, businessand labor leaders and academic experts to identifythose areas in most urgent need of reform. We built onmanagement initiatives of the current and past administrationsthat are working well and should be continuedand expanded. Our recommendations largely focus onwhat can be done by the executive branch without actionby Congress, although there are legislative changesthat could improve the effectiveness of the enterprise approachand that will be needed to make improvements inthe civil service.As one former federal leader bluntly stated, “No agencycan solve a complex problem by itself anymore. We’vemoved into a new era.” The Obama administration hastaken a first step toward enterprise government by establishinga limited number of interim cross-agency prioritygoals as directed by Congress under GPRAMA. The lawrequires the administration to update these goals when itsubmits its 2015 federal budget. However, we believe theWhite House should extend the enterprise approach toa broader array of cross-agency goals, missions and administrativefunctions, and invest in the infrastructurenecessary to ensure that this approach becomes the acceptednorm.8 PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE | BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON