S. 946, the Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1995

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Excerpt from S. 946, the Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1995: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session on S. 946, July 25, 1995With this investment focus, your proposal establishes a perform ance contract with executive agencies, and we think this is a very good move. By demonstrating accountability for managing risk and producing results, in turn agencies are given more ¿exibility to enter into information technology contracts on their own, with fewer oversight hurdles. And by establishing linkages with procure ment and budget processes, this contract is made real, not like the paper approval process that we currently have in place.Finally, achieving dramatic service improvements will require going beyond business as usual. All too Often agencies, as you pointed out, attempt to automate existing inefficient processes, and as a result, we have lost millions of dollars with little results. Moreover, there are huge opportunities out there to improve service delivery and reduce costs that are going untapped as a result Of this failure to really focus on re-engineering first.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.