SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

The job description of all federal employees should be updated to require them to submit ideas to improve operations, costs, moral, etc. or to evaluate the ideas of others. This requirement should be made part of their job description and be part of the regular appraisal process. What gets measured gets done.

I have submitted several ideas locally that has saved the agency at least 1 million dollars on only one of the ideas. The others saved time, paper, improved efficiency, money, and helped the military. When you have a track record of successful ideas one that may not be working will be thought of as something that can be fixed. The end result is when an idea is submitted others that never thought of the idea may get involved... more »