This is a piece of President Obama's speech to the Congress, yesterday:
The point, the White House says, is not just making the government smaller but better by saving people time and eliminating bureaucratic nightmares. The idea for the consolidated business agency grew out of discussions with hundreds of business leaders and agency heads over the last several months.
Read more: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120113/POLITICS/120119938
Again, I am not in politics, but I think it is great that politicians are looking into this. Surely, it should have come earlier, but "better later than ever!"
Now, Implementation and Communication should be two major parts of his plan. Obama should constantly communicate his implementation strategy and stats should be open to everyone to evaluate. Something else very important, will be to develop Performance Measurements to track how the offices were doing, what the goal is and track the actual performance all the way through. With the transparency of this tool, everyone will realize the benefits of this choice.
This is even more true as we are talking about services paid by the tax-payer.
Also, something-else that should be considered, is that Lean will NOT work if the intent is to lay-off people. Lean will only work if those people involved in the merge will realize that their job in not at-stake, but that, with the change, they will be "moved" into a new position more suitable to their skill.
Good Luck Mr. President
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