2: Management Leadership
Provide management leadership to ensure the faithful execution of the enacted budget, programs, regulations and policies. Other Information:
Management of the Federal government is a complex process that requires OMB to provide policy guidance, coordinate activities
and assist with implementation within and across agencies. All organizational units within OMB are actively involved in the
tasks of management: planning, analysis, organization and direction. To leverage its own staff capacities, OMB provides leadership
to groups of agency managers who share the work of policy development and identifying and implementing the means to better
manage Federal resources. (For an illustrative list of these groups see Appendix 2.) Linking budgetary resource decisions
to the management of agency programs is critical. For example, implementation of new information technology initiatives requires
both thoughtful guidance and proper allocation of budget resources over the expected development period. To more effectively
link resource allocations and program management, OMB undertook a major reorganization in 1994. This reorganization, called
OMB2000, placed the responsibility for oversight of program management in OMB's Resource Management Offices. In their role,
the Resource Management Offices receive support from OMB staff offices; and technical assistance from the three statutory
offices (the Office of Federal Financial Management, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, and the Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs). The statutory offices retain the responsibility for developing and issuing policy.
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