Establish President's Management Council

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.