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National Finance Center defaulting to e-pay stubs
OMB says only 30 percent of NFC's 640,000 customers receive pay slips electronically. Employees must opt in to receive a paper pay stub.
Tags: Pay & Benefits , management , Peter Orszag , OMB , National Finance Center , USDA , DHS , Electronic pay stub ,
OMB to dash(board) to better management
Chief performance officer Zients says agencies need to figure out and follow the best metrics to improve performance. Federal Performance Portal will be a one-stop shop for all agency measures that are being tracked through online dashboards.
Tags: management , technology , Jeff Zients , OMB , Labor , Interior , Air Force , VA , Jonathan Breul , Robert Shea , IBM , Grant Thornton , 2011 budget , performance management , dashboards
OMB sets rules to spur innovations
A new memo details the way agencies can run competitions and award prizes. OMB will set up a Web site to help run the challenges. GSA also will award a contract vehicle for technical assistance.
Tags: management , Jeff Zients , OMB , GSA , VA , Agency competition
Feds offer cost-cutting ideas in third SAVE Awards
Through July 29, feds can submit their money-saving ideas. OMB narrows the ideas to the final four and then opens voting to the public.
Tags: Collaboration Center , budget , OMB , White House , Jeff Zients
OMB in search of more money saving ideas
The White House today launched the 2011 version of the SAVE award. Employees can submit ideas starting through July 29. Over the past two years, feds offered more than 56,000 potential money-saving ideas.
Tags: management , Jeff Zients , OMB , Bureau of Prisons , VA , budget cuts , Jason Miller
OMB to make reorg recommendations by June 30
Jeff Zients, OMB's deputy director for management and chief performance officer, said he sent an email to federal employees asking for ways to reform export and trade missions of agencies. He said there are 12 different agencies that have programs in these areas. A new platform has collected almost 1,200 ideas so far.
Tags: management , Jeff Zients , OMB , Brookings Institution , reorganization , Ideascale , Jason Miller
SAVE Award winner presents President with idea
Trudy Givens, who works at the Bureau of Prisons in Wisconsin, received more than 20,000 votes for her suggestion to stop printing and mailing the Federal Register to employees. She won the 2010 SAVE Award and talked to President Obama about it Friday.
Tags: management , Jack Lew , Trudy Givens , OMB , Bureau of Prisons , Federal Register , Jason Miller
SAVE Award winner cuts printing, postage costs
Trudy Givens, of Portage, Wisc., beat out more than 18,000 with her idea for an "opt-in" option for hard copies of the Federal Register.
Tags: Trudy Givens , Bureau of Prisons , White House , Barack Obama , Jolie Lee , budget , innovation , Federal Register
OMB kicks off voting for SAVE Awards
The Office of Management and Budget chose four ideas out of 18,000 entries that will save the government money. The winner will get to meet President Obama and present their idea. Voting starts today.
Tags: management , Jeff Zients , Marjorie Cook , Thomas Koenning , Paul Behe , Trudy Givens , Nancy Fichtner , OMB , USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service , Labor Department's Mine Safety and Health Administ , DHS , Justice Department's Bureau of Prisons , VA , Jason Miller
SAVE Awards update for 2010 entries
Learn how things have changed.
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