Article 45. A Unified Approach to Government Change in Missouri

The following Missouri State Committees are related to  Government Reform yet each is seen as a separate initiative.  Only when State Government reform is viewed as unified approach which identifies and solves state problems can any real progress be made.  The surest way to avoid change is to approach change as unrelated fragmented initiatives.

1. APPROPRIATIONS - GENERAL ADMINISTRATION, Standing
2. APPROPRIATIONS - REVENUE, TRANSPORTATION, AND ECONOMIC      DEVELOPMENT, Standing
3. BUDGET, Standing
4. DOWNSIZING STATE GOVERNMENT, Standing
5. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, Standing
6. FISCAL REVIEW, Standing
7. GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, Standing
8. INTERIM BIPARTISAN INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE ON STATE DEPARTMENT WORKPLACE ABUSE, Interim
9. INTERIM COMMITTEE ON IMPROVING GOVERNMENT RESPONSIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY, Interim
10. INTERIM COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE INSTITUTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND PROCESS, Interim
11. JOINT COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY, Statutory
12. JOINT INTERIM COMMITTEE ON REDUCING THE SIZE OF STATE GOVERNMENT, Interim

My approach to Reforming Missouri’s State  government Starts with the identification and correction of government Problems through the use of Enterprise Lean the first step of my General Reform Model.
See Article 36. False Assumptions by government Leaders.

Government Management problems:
The key to management as identified in private business is that you must have "on record" the actual cost of all government processes.  This does not exist in Missouri’s state government which uses a Top-Down budget that is updated to cover increased expenses each year.   Without the knowledge of actual costs there can be no real management taking place in Missouri’s government.

We can Change Missouri’s government by implementing Enterprise Lean which corrects fundamental problems in Missouri’s government using my General Reform Model.
1. Empowers government Employees to innovate and make continuous improvements to their jobs.  
2. Finds and corrects inefficiencies in all government processes and systems.
3. Determines the actual costs of all government processes allowing real management to occur.
4. The Lean data can be used for Right-Sizing (makes sure all government employees have a full time Job) and staffing of government functions.
5. The Lean data can be also be used to create a Bottoms-up budget of actual costs of all government functions.
6.  The lean data can be used to manage government by measuring the efficiency of government functions.

Lawrence Rosier's State Reform Models were designed to correct state government problems.
1. The General Reform Model
2. Streamlining state government Boards and Commissions Reform Model
3. Consolidation Reform Model
4. State Information Technology Cloud Data Center

For the details see Article 12. Lawrence Rosier's State Reform Models.
Excluding #4. The State Information Technology Data Center which will be done by others. The annual savings for this implementation is between $200 and $300 million.  The Return on Investment could be more than $500 for each dollar invested.