1) The red tape was cut to focus more on the outcomes than to strictly follow the regulations. So, the procedure the American government applied includes:
(1) Adjustment of the budget process, such as top-down policies, budget arrangement regarding the priority of policy importance and budget allocation according to organizational tasks, budget arrangement and approval in two-year periods, cancellation of budget reimbursements at different times, and specification of description and objectives of expenses.
(2) Decentralization of personnel administration for recruiting and selecting employees for all positions, adjusting the position classification and compensation systems, evaluating performance and discharging officers for misconduct and loss of working ability.
(3) Streamlining procurement for deftness and rapidity, authorization of procurement of information technology as appropriate for the organizations’ size, with no bids in cases of budgets not exceeding US$100,000.
(4) Reorientation of the Inspector General’s roles, by assigning additional roles and developing the monitoring system to put more emphasis on outcome-based administration.
(5) Elimination of regulatory overkill by being less strict with the internal control or cutting unnecessary expenses.
(6) Increasing the federal and state governments’ authority by amending some regulations or laws which hampered the governments’ performance 25 and assigning the governments to manage small-sized projects with budgets not exceeding US$10 million.