United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2002-11-14 monographic deposited born digital 16 p. GA 1.13:GAO-03-293SP https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-293SP P0b002ee1803a3536 f:d03293sp DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-293SP machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-293SP GAO-03-293SP Agency missions Federal agencies National preparedness Best practices Other Written Product A05534 The early years of the 21st century are proving to be a period of profound transition for our world, our country, and our government. The federal government needs to engage in a comprehensive review, reassessment, reprioritization, and as appropriate, re-engineering of what the government does, how it does business, and in some cases, who does the government's business. Leading public and private organizations in the United States and abroad have found that for organizations to successfully transform themselves they must often fundamentally change their culture. On September 24, 2001, GAO convened a forum to identify and discuss useful practices and lessons learned from major private and public sector organizational mergers, acquisitions, and transformations that federal agencies could implement to successfully transform their cultures and a new Department of Homeland Security could use to merge its various originating components into a unified department. The invited participants have experience managing or studying large-scale organizational mergers, acquisitions, and transformations. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-293SP/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-293SP.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-293SP/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-293SP.pdf GAO-03-293SP https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-293SP Other Written Product GAO-03-293SP; Highlights of a GAO Forum: Mergers and Transformation: Lessons Learned for a Department of Homeland Security and Other Federal Agencies; Agency missions Federal agencies National preparedness Best practices