3. Establish a President's Management Council. (2) The President should establish a President's Management Council (PMC) to ensure that the reforms adopted as a result of the NPR are implemented throughout the executive branch in order to improve overall executive branch management.(20) The PMC would operate within the strategic framework of the vision, goals, and priorities established by the President and Cabinet to set policy and serve as change agents in the executive branch. The PMC's progress would be specifically overseen by the Vice President. The new PMC would be the President's chief instrument for ensuring that strategic and quality management principles, reengineering of administrative processes, and NPR's other recommendations are implemented throughout the executive branch. The PMC would coordinate management-related reinvention efforts by the Executive Office of the President (EOP), the departments and agencies, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the General Services Administration (GSA). It would also identify and resolve inter-agency management problems, provide continual improvement of management systems, and spearhead the cultural change necessary for introducing "managing for results" throughout the executive branch. The PMC would be an interagency team with COO responsibilities for executive branch management.(21) PMC members would be responsible for management of their own organizations and, collectively, for advising the President and Vice President on the management of the entire executive branch. The President should appoint the OMB Deputy Director for Management as the PMC chairperson. The PMC would have 22 regular members: the OMB Deputy Director for Management; designated chief operating officers from the 14 cabinet departments, the Environmental Protection Agency, and three other agencies (designated by the chairperson); the heads of OPM and GSA; and the Secretary of the Cabinet. Other officials of executive departments and agencies would be appointed to the PMC as decided by the President. The PMC's work would be conducted through PMC committees, working groups, commissions, and forums. It should solicit feedback from customers and government employees. It might also profit from the advice of successful nonprofit organizations, government unions, and state and local governments. The PMC would establish its own work agenda consisting of activities and decisions addressing overall executive branch and inter-agency processes and issues within the strategic framework established by the President. Examples of PMC agenda items and activities could include: Improve overall executive branch management, including reform of governmentwide systems, such as management controls, financial management, personnel, budgeting, and procurement. Coordinate management-related efforts to improve government throughout the executive branch and resolve specific inter-agency management issues. Ensure adoption of new management practices in executive branch agencies. Identify examples of, and provide mechanisms for inter-agency exchange of information and support of "best management practices." The PMC's work would receive staff support from a small team in the Executive Office of the President (EOP) composed of current EOP staff. The FQI Director should participate as a member of the EOP- based PMC support team and provide a direct link between the PMC and FQI. This would provide additional support for implementing NPR's recommendation for creating a quality management culture in the executive branch.
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