4.6: Policies and Procedures
Evaluate and Enhance Policies and Procedures Other Information:
Agencies have numerous management policies, procedures, and activities in place – agency wide, specific to bureaus, and embedded
in programs. Agencies should open these up to review and evolve them based on the need to institutionalize the activities,
processes, and responsibilities described in this Concept of Operations. This includes looking at agency overall and Information
Resource Management Strategic Plans; priorities for resource allocation, and efficiencies possible through rationalizing and
improved federation of existing activities around the information dissemination and sharing value proposition described earlier.
One specific area to highlight is agency, bureau, and program data management and architecture activities. Refocusing these
to support dissemination and sharing of high value agency information assets, either with the public in general (via Data.gov)
or with specific mission partners (e.g., other agencies; State, local, or tribal; international partners, private sector,
or with individuals through delivery of services) could provide an opportunity to more tightly align currently disparate and/or
loosely coupled activities. Leverage of the shared solution components and explicit participation in Data.gov working groups
could offer economies of knowledge and accelerate agency integration of best practices. Finally the explicit, measured connection
to the public including feedback offers quantifiable and attributable measures of value creation.
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