Vision
A modern, integrated business environment helping NASA achieve its strategic vision.
Mission
To improve financial, physical, and human capital management processes throughout the Agency – re-engineer NASA’s business infrastructure using industry “best practices” and deploy enabling technology to provide management information needed to implement the Agency’s Strategic Plan.
Purpose
To transform business systems and processes to improve NASA’s fiscal and management accountability.
Business Drivers
To accomplish its mission and support the crosscutting activity, IEMP has identified the following business objectives that are characterized as Agency Business Drivers:
- Provide timely, consistent, and reliable information for management decisions - Implement standard systems and processes, data integration, and a single point of data entry which will eliminate reconciliation and provide every management level with consistent data for financial and program decision making. IEMP will also provide analysis and reporting tools to get the right information to the right people at the right level so that they can make timely, informed decisions.
- Improve NASA's accountability and enable full cost management -
Implement full cost accounting resulting in increased accountability by providing the means to understand cost drivers, determine total program costs, and relate costs to value. This will allow the Agency to manage programs using full cost management techniques and enhance the ability to manage institutional capabilities.
- Achieve efficiencies and operate effectively - NASA must evaluate and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes to appropriately support mission program requirements. Budgets and staffing levels have already been reduced in many administrative areas. New tools are required to ensure that processes operate effectively (the results are what the process intended and they facilitate accomplishing NASA values such as enhancing safety), are conducted efficiently (reduce resources to implement the processes), and result in overall savings to the agency (the products managed or acquired by the process are better or cost less).
- Exchange information with customers and stakeholders - Implement the infrastructure and tools that will facilitate the free flow of information internally and externally to increase Agency level accountability, achieve integrity of data and information, and communicate cost effectiveness of NASA's actions.
- Attract and retain a world class workforce - Provide tools and operational environments that contribute to NASA's ability to attract and retain highly qualified individuals to support the goals and objectives of the strategic enterprises and the infrastructure of the Agency.
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