SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

I propose that our govt move into a new era where paper decisionmaking is a thing of the past. Technology exists where secure signatures and sharing networks can bring our offices up to the year 2011. We can reduce the burden on our forests and recycling centers! We can reduce the time it takes to get a document from one decisionmaker to another by using software that allows all decisionmakers to view and sign document... more »

The Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Program needs revamping or elimination across the government. There is emphasis on metrics to get so many Lean Six Sigma Events done per year. Lean Six Sigma Events gobble up many manhours to prepare for and execute. There are many hourly people involved and most of the time the events do not produce anything but paper and a metric. The LSS program seems ill suited for use in administrative... more »

The US Government purchases many billions of dollars of goods and services each year. Contract evaluations do include "past performance" but that's usually just a few references provided by the bidder. Agencies generally do not have any reliable or systematic way of knowing how happy or unhappy others within their own Department have been with the same product or company, and they certainly have no way to access that... more »