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The success of DOE's initiative to meet Departmental
goals depends on working together to develop useful, specific, and realistic performance
measures. Without a real and cooperative effort, performance measurement could become only
a paper exercise. But if done well, with every organization and individual contributing,
performance measurement can be a valuable self-evaluation tool.
Performance measurement can identify problems that need
fixing and activities that have positive impacts. DOE traditionally produces high-quality
work. Quality, however, can always be improved. This is an implicit goal within DOE.
Developing and using performance measurement in the Department and aggregating measures
for used a higher DOE levels makes improvement possible.
Strategic Management
System
The Strategic
Management System defines how the Department expects to manage for results,
and comply with the requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993
(GPRA), the Government Management and Reform Act of 1994 (GMRA), other laws, and an
Executive Order summarized later in this document. The Strategic Management System was
approved for implementation by the Secretary on March 4, 1996. As was noted in the
introduction, our vision is that all organizations with the Department implement
performance measurement systems to support their own planning and evaluation and that
these measurement systems are part of the Department's Strategic Management System. When
approved, the Strategic Management System was primarily a road map---a unifying theme for
applying performance-based management within the Department. We will need to work together
to make the Strategic Management System a reality.
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