Pursuit's Take
Federal agencies annually assess their progress towards achieving strategic objectives—the specific outcomes or impacts their various programs and efforts aim to accomplish.
GAO looked at five agencies’ experiences conducting these strategic reviews and identified some common themes:
- The reviews helped focus leadership attention on objectives needing the most attention
- Agencies conducted their reviews as part of their existing management and performance processes, instead of creating new procedures
- Agencies captured lessons learned from their reviews, and used them to refine and improve future strategic reviews