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Decision Maker Profiles. Understand each decision makers roles and their perspective Know the questions that should be answered by each level of management: Budget Office Executives Director Agency DOF LAO Legislature Governor’s Office. CONCEPT CRITIQUE.
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Decision Maker Profiles • Understand each decision makers roles and their perspective • Know the questions that should be answered by each level of management: • Budget Office • Executives • Director • Agency • DOF • LAO • Legislature • Governor’s Office
CONCEPT CRITIQUE • A single page, internal, “sales pitch” used to determine whether to go forward with a proposal to change existing budget. • Title is important. • Use plain language that can be easily understood by all reviewers. • Clear, concise, and logical business case(summary). • Confidential documents. • Definitely an art form. • Costing's should be performed by appropriate staff (i.e., Human Resources, IT). • Costing's should be realistic and close to the final request. • Departments have their own requirements for formatting.
Simulation LEARNING • Be prepared to defend your proposal. • Make sure you have the authority to make decisions • Be aware of the political climate. • Know your agency’s priorities. • Have your subject matter expert on hand to answer questions or provide additional information. • Know your organization chart and chain of command. • Know when to stand your ground or when to concede. • Be prepared to discuss compromises. You must be able to perform if you compromise your needs. • Use your gut to make non important decisions based on history and experience. • Be aware of Administration requests that they are not over 5% and/or keep in line with requested resources. • 1 position BCPs are hard to defend. Will request you look at redirection of existing resources. • Know your department’s long term goals and strategic plan and make sure your request is in alignment.
CRITQUE OF BUDGET CHANGE PROPOSALS • All other categories (above) helped to critique the BCPs. • Use other BCPs found on DOF’s web site for examples of well written and poorly written examples. • Timely, complete and concise. • High quality BCP doesn’t mean that it will be prepared. • How you present the data is important (tables, charts) • Alternatives must be fully thought out and must be realistic. • Must be written for an audience that doesn’t know the subject of the proposal. • Have an implementation plan. • Cost have to be as accurate as possible. • If costs are unusual, they should be addressed in the text. • Provide supportive history and mandates of the issue(s) being addressed without being too wordy.