Four Actions to Better Integrate Performance With Budget

Connect budget requests with agency goals by providing a range of performance options at different resource allocations. A new mandated annual strategic review process is a step forward.

The percentage of federal managers who used performance information to help allocate resources actually dropped between 1997 and 2013, according to a 2013 Government Accountability Office survey. Is it time to give performance data another try?

"Yes," says John Whitley in a report for the IBM Center f