Federal 100: Jeffrey Zients

Jeffrey Zients
Deputy Director for Management
and Chief Performance Officer
Office of Management and Budget

The work: Sharpening the federal focus on performance management.

The impact: Zients has helped create an outcome-oriented culture in government, with a special emphasis on how IT investments can produce meaningful results.

The nuts and bolts: Zients has been tireless in promoting IT reform initiatives to improve mission effectiveness and make agencies operate more efficiently. In a period of financial austerity, he has successfully challenged agencies to accelerate efforts to consolidate IT infrastructure, transform the way IT capabilities are acquired and achieve greater efficiencies through the use of shared services.

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