  Bookmark Email Print this page  Cost Reduction in the Federal
Government  An interview with Janet Hale  Competing priorities
are slowing down federal government efficiency, according to a
fall 2012 study from the Government Business Council (GBC),
sponsored by Deloitte.  Just 29 percent of the federal managers
surveyed give high marks to the efficiency of their agency, and
16 percent say the same about the federal government as a whole.
Despite this, agencies across government are completing
successful cost-reduction initiatives – and studying these
efforts reveals techniques that focus group members say could be
used to drive greater federal agency efficiency. Janet Hale, a
director at Deloitte Services LP and former undersecretary for
management at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, shares
with GBC insights gained from numerous cost-cutting initiatives.
GBC: Strong project governance has been shown to play an
integral role in improving project performance. What are some of
the important aspects of