Meeting the Moment: A Strategic Approach to Government Efficiency and Technology Transformation

LMI's government efficiency and technology transformation (GETT) team helps you architect efficiencies in the next 90 days and reinvest in your core mission.

Recent presidential actions regarding government efficiency signal a fundamental shift in how federal agencies approach their operations and technology infrastructure. With the establishment of U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Service teamsⁱ and an aggressive 90-day deadline to build a transformation plan,ⁱⁱ agency leaders face an unprecedented opportunity. The key to success lies in adopting a strategic, mission-first approach to efficiency, leveraging modern, commercially available technologies.

The New Efficiency Mandate: Beyond Cost Cutting

The presidential actions create a clear imperative: agencies must demonstrate measurable efficiency improvements while maintaining or enhancing mission delivery. This mandate requires a sophisticated approach beyond traditional cost-reduction measures.

• Impact-oriented technology and process modernization: Agencies must deploy new technologies while transforming their legacy processes and systems. Success requires an impact-oriented approach to technology modernization, addressing the full set of technology, process, and workforce levers in the operational ecosystem.
• Innovation with operational stability: The presidential actions require quick action and new ideas. Agencies must implement these changes swiftly while maintaining critical services, balancing innovation with operational stability.
• Laser-focus on mission and efficiency: Transformation efforts must support agencies' statutory missions, not chase technology for technology’s sake. By maintaining an unwavering focus on core mission enhancement, agencies build lasting operational improvements, maximizing return on taxpayers’ investment.

Strategic Impact Levers for Agency Leaders

To implement the president’s DOGE agenda and accelerate mission objectives, agency leaders must align four impact levers:

1. Zero-Based Mission Delivery Model: Efficiency begins with reimagining mission delivery from the ground up. Start with the agency's statutory missions, establish the resourcing required to execute these and any enabling back-office functions (e.g., HR, finance, IT), and deprioritize activities and resources outside these core areas. Tying each modernization initiative to measurable mission impact and financial targets will create tangible efficiency gains.
2. IT Portfolio Transformation: A strategic approach to technology moves beyond siloed modernization to full portfolio rationalization, focusing on an agency’s core mission and competencies. Eliminate redundant systems, transform operations with modern technologies, and create a clear connection between every IT investment and its impact on transformation priorities and mission outcomes. 
3. Generative AI and Automation: Leverage thoughtfully designed generative AI and automation to rapidly and dramatically improve agency efficiency. Success requires carefully selecting processes to maximize AI impact, building capabilities to enhance and accelerate human expertise, and changing the organization to capture and sustain efficiency gains.
4. Digital Workforce Evolution: The streamlined federal agency of the future requires a rethink of what work gets done—and how. Design integrated human-AI workflows to optimize both human and machine capabilities, upskill the workforce, and foster a performance-driven culture that embraces tech-enablement.

Getting Started

With the 90-day deadline looming, agency leaders must act swiftly, yet strategically, to uncover the organizational efficiencies of most benefit to the mission. Immediate next steps include assessing operations and defining efficiency targets, prioritizing functional areas for efficiency and technology transformations, and building the team and capabilities to execute at pace. The four strategic impact levers lay the groundwork for finding—and implementing—quick wins to spur momentum in the first 90 days while building a sustainable roadmap for the 18 months until the July 2026 DOGE implementation deadline.

Meeting these ambitious mandates requires solutions that disrupt the status quo and accelerate action. LMI's GETT practice integrates generative AI, technology modernization, and organizational performance solutions—along with the deep federal mission expertise, agility, and a shared sense of urgency—to meet the moment, at pace, for transformative impact in government.

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