Crosscutting Processes 1: Sound Management Decisions and Practices

Enable the Agency to carry out its responsibilities effectively, efficiently, and safely through sound management decisions and practices.

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The Manage Strategically Crosscutting Process: Through NASA, the American people have invested in an irreplaceable public aerospace research and development infrastructure consisting of a unique combination of physical resources and human talents. Managing these resources effectively and strategically is critical to achieving Agency goals and objectives. If a high-performance organization is to achieve its strategic objectives, it cannot simply practice good management; it must manage strategically. Ordinary good management entails responding to constituencies and customers, minimizing costs, seeking efficiencies, and investing in resources for maximum returns. By integrating these general management practices with management of our strategic processes we seek to manage strategically. Managing Strategically means that all parts of the organization proceed together coherently, comprehensively, and expeditiously toward the achievement of a single set of strategic goals. This requires that we leverage our limited resources; standardize processes where it makes sense to do so; streamline processes for timely results; and ensure rapid, reliable, and open exchanges of information.

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1: Safety and Health

2: Information Technology Management and Planning

3: Fiscal Management

4: Physical Resource Management

5: Acquisition Management

6: Human Capital

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