FY 1999 Performance Report

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Conclusion

OPM, like other agencies, can point to real change and improvement in our strategic planning and results measurement process because of the Government Performance and Results Act. We were pleased to be recognized as one of the first agencies to directly link our Congressional Budget Justification and Annual Performance Plan. We found that our first five-year Strategic Plan served as a useful framework for our annual planning, but we also learned that we needed to better focus on our priorities and clarify our intended outcomes. Our revised Strategic Plan – currently being reviewed by all of our stakeholders – reflects these improvements. We also recognize that we face many of the same problems as other Federal agencies in defining cost-effective, realistic measures for many of our programs, and that we must do more to ensure that the data we collect are available and reliable. We welcome these challenges, and will continue to use the Results Act to improve our performance and that of human resources management across the Government. Our combined efforts will result in a Government that works better and costs less.

We are also proud of the accomplishments described in this report to lead strategic human resources management. How we lead the Federal Government through this time of change will mean the difference between success and failure in making our Government more customer-focused and results-oriented.