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Summit Day Two: June 9, 2004

Track C: Performance-Based Budgeting: Achieve budget-performance integration and demonstrate accountability for agency goals and resources

Track D: Managing for Results: Cover the latest innovations in performance management that will improve efficiencies and deliver results to the taxpayer

7:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Keynote Address: A Cabinet Level View on Improving Performance and Managing Change
One of the biggest challenges in improving government performance is the challenges in managing the culture change that accompanies it. While agencies drive towards getting to green, agency administration is tasked with managing the cultural resistance and change that accompanies this. In this session, we will hear from Deputy Secretary Steven Law from the Department of Labor on the challenges and solutions the Department has faced in improving their performance and becoming a leader in government accountability.
The Honorable Steven Law, Deputy Secretary, Department of Labor*

9:30 Track C: Performance-Based Budgeting
Achieving Effective Budget and Performance Integration in Government: Lessons Learned from the Federal PART Process
- Understand OMB guidance on budget-performance integration and the principles of PART
- Integrate strategic plans and accountability reports to communicate performance and resource allocation
- Best practices on linking resources to results to illustrate cost management and measurement
Ted David, Chief Financial Officer, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Track D: Managing for Results
Developing a Performance-Based Strategic Plan
- Understand the importance of performance measures and develop strategies for fostering change
- Develop an effective mission statement with organizational values and principles
- Define strategies for achieving mission results with a comprehensive budget-performance integration plan
Dennis Taitano, Director, Budget Division, Farm Service Agency

10:30 Break & Refreshments

10:45 Track C: Performance-Based Budgeting

Step-by-Step Analysis of PART
- Examine the PART process with a detailed analysis of questions and weighting
- Introduction of strategies for successfully aligning agency budget requests with program performance
- Take the next steps to improving program results and budget allocations
Jeffrey Bergin, Director, Center for Government Performance, Performance Institute

Track D: Managing for Results
Communicating the Progress of Performance Management Initiatives
- Develop a transparent results-management system that communicates agency success
- Keep staff motivated by providing evidence of improvements
- Identify key “success stories” of management improvement to provide to internal and external stakeholders
Curtis Coy, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration, Department of Health and Human Services

12:00 Keynote Luncheon: Managing for Results: Implementing Statewide Budget-Performance Integration
With state resources as limited as ever, it’s essential that state budgets link resources to results. It is essential that an integration of performance goals, measures and an estimation of resources is developed. Through the implementation of a performance management framework state-wide services are now becoming more outcome orientated, accountable and transparent. Listen as the Governor of Nevada discusses the success they have had in delivering results to the taxpayer.
The Honorable Kenny Guinn, Governor, State of Nevada*

1:00 Track C: Performance-Based Budgeting
Linking Resources to Results: Ten-Step Approach to Performance-Based
Budgeting

- Develop a performance management framework with identifiable outcomes, strategies, outputs and activities
- Calculate activity and output costs and develop cost efficiency measures to ensure proper allocation of resources
- Align budget request to performance management framework to ensure that estimates and justifications are performance-based
Jeffrey Bergin, Director, Center for Government Performance, Performance Institute

Track D: Managing for Results
Improving Efficiency and Results through Competitive Sourcing
- Understand the principles for achieving cost-efficiency through public-private competition
- Cover the latest changes and strategies regarding competitive sourcing in federal and state governments
- Examine best practices for improving cost and efficiency through the “best value” approach
Geoffrey Segal, Director of Government Reform, Reason Public Policy Institute; Advisor, Governor’s Center for Efficient Government, State of Florida
Pam Pfeifer, Director, Governor’s Center for Efficient Government, State of Florida


2:00 Track C: Performance-Based Budgeting
Aligning Program Budget with Program Results
- Improve program performance using a budget-performance integration management system
- Discuss the PART’s four components and best practices for ensuring success at each level
- Identify key strategies for aligning program budget with programs results
Michael Spanier, Deputy Director, New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration

Track D: Managing for Results
Paying For Results: Implementing a Performance-Based Service Acquisition Strategy
- Increase cost-efficiency and achieve agency mission through improvement performance of contracted services
- Examine where performance-based service acquisition has worked by looking at “Success Stories” from the federal government
- Walk-through the Seven-Step Process for designing and implementing contracts that deliver results
Hamilton Brown, Contract Branch Operations Chief, Offices of Facilities, Acquisitions and Central Services, Department of Health and Human Services

3:00 Break & Refreshments

3:15 Track C: Performance-Based Budgeting
Activity-Based Costing: Aligning Budget Justifications with Agency Mission
- Use Activity-Based Costing to identify true program costs
- Obtain accurate depictions of all business processes that impact productivity and profitability
- Maximize the value from your budget by using a framework that can be adapted to your needs
Christopher Richey, Acting Budget Officer for National Business Center, Department of the
Interior


Track D: Managing for Results
Project Management: Skills and Strategies for Delivering Effective Results
- Develop and implement performance measures for project management success
- Acquire the latest strategies and tools for effective management of your agency’s projects
- Examine government best practices and effective project management techniques
Linda Salac, Business Manager III, Department of Health and Human Services, State of Nebraska

4:00 Townhall Dialogue: Communicating Performance Results
Effective performance management relies on efficient measurement of agency goals and expectations, and the communicating of those results to managers, Congress, and taxpayers. This facilitated dialogue will offer you the opportunity for peer-to-peer exchange of ideas for communicating agency success and demonstrating results. This session is your opportunity to voice concerns, raise questions, suggest solutions and exchange ideas with your colleagues from across the government.

4:45 Adjourn Day Two

*Invited