5: Management Excellence
Manage the Department to be highly skilled, accountable, modern, functionally integrated, citizen-centered and result-oriented Other Information:
Successful management is imperative if we are to meet our four strategic mission goals. Interior personnel will need to reconcile
the public's increasing demand for services and products with constrained budget resources. Only a steady stream of innovation
will produce the required increases in our efficiency and effectiveness. To succeed, we will need increased accountability
for results, more effective means of leveraging available resources, and the continuous introduction and evaluation of process,
structural, and technology improvements. The Department's management approach is guided by the Secretary's key business principles:
accountability and modernization/integration. Accountability: Our managers and employees will be held responsible for performance
results measured against clear gauges, with budgets linked to performance and sound financial management. Modernization/Integration:
With respect to modernization, the Department will use technology to work smarter, including providing single points of access
to our services and other expanded E-Government opportunities. We are working to give our employees the skills, technologies,
systems, and practices they'll need to meet the future. Leading the management initiatives is the Department's Management
Excellence Council, chaired by the Secretary and including the Deputy Secretary, Solicitor, Associate Deputy Secretary, Inspector
General, Assistant Secretaries, Chief Information Officer, and Bureau Directors. The Council provides direction and accountability
to implement the Administration's goals and provide overall direction and oversight to the Department's management improvement
activities. To support the Management Excellence Council, a senior-level team (the Management Initiatives Team MIT) has been
established with its own topical sub-teams. (See Appendix 6.) By focusing on the President's Management Agenda and the Secretary's
vision and management principles, the Department's integrated strategy will improve performance and efficiency and reduce
duplication, rendering the support we need to achieve our mission goals.
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