February 1998

Implementing the Results Act: Resources Galore

Every person involved in strategic planning activities should have access to the wealth of information condensed onto a tiny CD-ROM; the Government Performance and Results Act: A Multimedia Orientation and Toolkit. This value-packed CD-ROM contains a library of information that is of great value to all those involved in honing strategic plans and developing program performance plans.

• Background
• Pertinent Documents
• Obtaining a CD-ROM

Background. On the CD-ROM, Vice President Al Gore joins John Koskinen, former Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Dick Armey, House Majority Leader, in communicating a spirit of mutual commitment and respect between the Executive and Legislative Branches as all implement the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (i.e., the Results Act).

Video excerpts and case studies record agency experiences in producing strategic plans. Actual agency plans and reports, collected prior to May 1997, serve as helpful examples to those who are struggling to produce their own. The earlier plans and reports link to current plans and reports using the Surf the Web function on the CD-ROM. Finding out what agencies are doing was never easier.

Pertinent Documents. The CD-ROM includes actual copies of documents that are important to everyone involved in strategic planning activities, such as:

• The Results Act, itself,
• OMB Circular No. A-11, Part 2, Strategic and Annual Performance Plans,
• The Chief Financial Officers' Act of 1990,
• Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996,
• The Blair House Papers,
• Executive Guide to Effectively Implementing GPRA (i.e., the Results Act),
• A Guide to Developing and Using Performance Measurers in Results-Based Budgeting,
• A Strategy Map for Results-Based Budgeting: Moving from Theory to Practice,
• Best Practices in Customer-Driven Strategic Planning, and, of course, others.

Obtaining a CD-ROM. The CD-ROM was originally distributed in September 1997 to agency heads, Federal Executive Board chairs, and National Academy of Public Administration Performance Consortium members. Additional copies are available, $20 each, by contacting Steve Shikes, Western Management Development Center, at 303-671-1033.