Office of Business Transformation (OBT)

About OBT

2009 and Beyond

OBT’s key activities include:

• Acting as an internal consulting group, maximizing return on taxpayer dollars by undertaking initiatives to improve services, reduce costs, and streamline bureaucracy
• Providing expert assistance in implementing Commercial Services Management techniques, including full-service planning and implementation of higher-performing organizations, in compliance with OMB Directives and Circulars
• Ensuring timely completion and announcement of all planned Commercial Services Management competitions in accordance with performance requirements; facilitating the transfer of best practices through Department-wide and government-wide Commercial Services Management meetings
• Providing Department-wide assistance in implementing business process re-engineering, organizational streamlining, and restructuring
• Institutionalizing performance measurement for program evaluation and productivity improvement by tracking trends in ASAM key performance indicators
• Completing Capital Planning and Investment Control compliance requirements in accordance with HHS information technology policies; attaining authorizations to operate
• Ensuring shared services optimization by actively monitoring Service and Supply Fund (SSF) Board and Workgroup discussions
• Leveraging sustainability-related savings/cost avoidances for further environmental initiatives
• Accelerating the pace and effectiveness of change by assisting senior leadership in planning, coordinating, and disseminating Department-wide reports (e.g., the FY 2009 Management Report to Employees)

Created date: February 11, 2009
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Last revised: March 16, 2009