Tracking Performance to Improve Accountability. Transition Topic

Abstract

ISSUE: The Secretary needs the means to track the progress of his most important objectives to help assure their accomplishment. IMPORTANCE: The next Secretary will be faced with a myriad of management issues in very constrained financial environment creating tremendous pressure to make strategic trade-offs. * He needs the means to direct individuals and units to those activities most critical to performance. * Managing a huge organization with conflicting internal and external interests requires a performance-management process that cascades critical objectives down the organization, translates them into measurement metrics, and provides for periodic reports back for evaluation feedback.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 23, 2008
Accession Number
ADA517502

Entities

People

  • Bruce Mosler
  • Fred Cook
  • Jim Haveman
  • Ken Krieg
  • Kevin Doxey
  • Leigh Warner
  • Madelyn Jennings
  • Mel Immergut

Organizations

  • Defense Business Board

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accountability
  • Commerce
  • Contracts
  • Environment
  • Feedback
  • Information Operations
  • Instructions
  • Leadership
  • Management Personnel
  • Measurement
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Transitions
  • Unified Combatant Commands

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design