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'Hunt' for cost-cutting ideas at GSA nets $5M in savings
The General Services Administration announced it will five cost-saving ideas generated by GSA employees. The ideas will save the agency more than $5.53 million and include phasing out a redundant employee survey and changing the default settings on printers.
Tags: GSA , management , best practices , Dan Tangherlini , Jack Moore
SAVE awards to become annual event
President Obama makes announcement on Monday.
Tags: management , Nancy Fichtner , VA , Jason Miller
President Obama present SAVE Award to VA staffer Nancy Fichtner
Colorado VA employee wins grass-roots competition for ideas to save government money; President says contest will be annual affair.
Tags: management , best practices , health IT , Department of Veterans Affairs , Nancy Fichtner , Barack Obama ,
Feds offer ideas on how to SAVE for the future
More than 18,000 feds have completed the sentence "I suggest you..." We get an update from OMB's Kenneth Baer, Associate Director for Strategic Planning and Communications
Tags: Federal Drive , OMB , Kenneth Baer
OMB pushes CFOs to lead cost-cutting effort
In a memo to agency financial managers, Danny Werfel set a July 31 deadline for three broad initiatives to reduce spending. Agency CFOs also must rank their employees' SAVE Award ideas for implementation and begin sharing best practices to root out waste, fraud and abuse.
Tags: CFO , OMB , Danny Werfel , wasteful spending , CFO Council , management , Jason Miller
Zients reviews progress, challenges one year in
Jeffrey Zients has been the federal chief performance officer for a little over a year now.
Tags: management , OMB , chief performance officer , Jeffrey Zients , IT , technology , Dorothy Ramienski , DorobekInsider
SAVE awards profile: HUD's Huston Prescott
Huston Prescott from Alaska says streamlining redundant inspections of subsidized housing would save inspectors' time and taxpayers' money. Subsidized housing units all across the country receive funds from many different grant programs.
Tags: mngt , OMB , Huston Prescott
Can you SAVE the government?
OMB wants federal employees to submit ideas for how to reduce spending and make agency services more efficient. The winner will present their idea to the President and it will be included in the 2011 budget.
Tags: mngt , Jeffrey Zients , President Obama , Peter Orszag , Ken Baer , OMB , DoJ ,
