News Media Coverage
About John Mercer
“Best program
strategies focus on outcomes” 
Federal Times
March 22, 2004
Article about federal agency strategic planning efforts.
“Giving Life to GPRA
-- Mercer pioneered spending/performance ties”
Federal Computer Week
December 10, 2001
Article about John Mercer's development of GPRA and his background in
performance-based budgeting.
“Consultant Crusades
for Better Federal Performance”
Federal Times
April 9, 2001
Article about John Mercer's efforts to bring performance-based budgeting
to the Federal Government.
“Performance plans must
become routine”
Government Computer News
July 27, 1998
Interview of John Mercer in which he explains the importance of integrating
GPRA compliance with other federal management reforms, such as those relating
to information technology, financial management, budgeting, and human
resources.
“Former official
takes Sunnyvale’s style of budgeting to nation”
San Jose Mercury News
August 5, 1993
Article published two days after the President signed GPRA into law, about
John Mercer using Sunnyvale’s performance-based budgeting system
as the inspiration for the drafting of the legislation.
In the News
“Budget Weeds Out Poor
Performers: 15 Programs Get the Ax”
Federal Times
February 02, 2004
Article about OMB's PART ratings resulting in program eliminations and
John Mercer's new congressional oversight scorecard.
“Tying budgets to results
gains renewed emphasis”
Government Computer News
January 21, 2002
Article about increased interest in performance-based budgeting by federal
agencies.
“Mercer: GPRA is the
key to funding in tough times”
Government Computer News
November 11, 2001
Article based on a presentation on performance budgeting made to federal
officials.
“Better cost data is
the key to performance budgeting, expert says”
GovExec.com (Government Executive Magazine)
May 18, 2001
Article about John Mercer's views on the importance of cost accounting
information.
Articles By
“A scorecard
for Congress”
Federal Times
April 12, 2004
Op-Ed article by John Mercer describing his proposed scorecard for rating
congressional committees on the quality of their GPRA-related oversight
of federal agencies.
“Agencies Face
Big Results Act Challenges”
Federal Times
December 13, 1999
Op-Ed article by John Mercer describing the top 10 GPRA-related challenges
agencies face in 2000.
“The Performance
Management and Budget System of the City of Sunnyvale, California”
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Public Management Occasional Papers 1994 No. 5
This is a paper by John Mercer describing the system in Sunnyvale that
inspired the drafting of GPRA. It was written at the request of the OECD,
a Paris-based organization of the world’s major industrial countries,
and distributed to its member nations as a chapter in a 1994 publication.
About Sunnyvale & GPRA
“Sunnyvale's
'Results-Oriented' Budget Innovations Win National Praise”
Los Angeles Times
September 12, 1993
“Clinton Tours
Town He Calls Role Model”
New York Newsday
September 11, 1993
Article about Sunnyvale's budget system being the inspiration for the
Government Performance and Results Act.
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