UPDATE: 4-18-09Jeffrey Zients is Obama's pick for chief performance officer
The president also names Aneesh Chopra as his choice for chief technology officer. Obama says he's ready to clean house, revamping 'government operations from top to bottom.
UPDATE: Obama performance chief Killefer out, citing taxes - February 8, 2009
Nancy Killefer withdrew her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government on Tuesday, saying she didn't want her bungling of payroll taxes on her household help to become a distraction for the Obama administration.
Original Posting:
(Obama) made good on a campaign promise and introduced his choice for a new White House post he is creating: Chief Performance Officer. Nancy Killefer, a professional efficiency expert, is charged with scouring the federal budget to eliminate programs that don't work and improve those that do. Obama called her appointment "among the most important that I will make."
"We committed to changing the way our government in Washington does business so that we're no longer squandering billions of tax dollars on programs that have outlived their usefulness or exist solely because of the power of a lobbyist or an interest group," Obama said.
Killefer, the director of a management consulting firm and a former assistant treasury secretary will be Obama's hatchet woman, with power to recommend directly to him the slashing of programs and projects government-wide. She'll help agencies set performance standards and hold managers accountable.
But she also will run up against a long history of other chief executives' similar promises under different titles that have fallen short.
She said the bureaucracy's entrenched problems have taken decades to develop and will take time to fix. But she said it would be different this time. "I have seen it done," Killefer said at Obama's side. SOURCE ...
[A Killer Job. We certainly wish her success in her mission. She will be in a tough, messy fight with the Beast. We would also hope that a web site is created for that office and will inform the citizens of any "fights" and the posting of any "cutting and slashing" that is actually accomplished.]
Statement of Nancy Killefer, Chair, IRS Oversight Board
Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Oversight
of the House Committee on Ways and Means
March 30, 2004
Chief Performance Officer: Measuring What Matters, Managing What Can Be Measured by Anthony L PolitanoNon-Gov Site Chief Performance Officer dot com
Transforming Performance MeasurementOther Books on Performance Measurement
and also: Performance Management
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