Policy Simplification
Eliminating Regulatory Burden and Reducing Red Tape to Unlock Mission
Rios Partners’ clients point to organizational inertia as a key hinderance to modernizing their policies and procedures. By increasing transparency through our red tape reduction approach, we bring peace of mind to leaders, allowing them to reposition their organizations from mundane to strategic efforts.
Government agencies frequently lack clarity on the collective impact of their policies, procedures and cultural norms. Undocumented policies, ad hoc approaches, antiquated technologies, and redundant procedures sap valuable staff time. We increase clarity by identifying all critical bureaucratic processes, mapping them in sequence, and analyzing them to find inefficiencies and easily realized improvements.
Reducing regulatory burden and red tape allows organizations to eliminate redundant steps and reorient staff time towards mission-critical procedures.
Rios Partners has classified, mapped, and simplified thousands of bureaucratic processes for our public sector clients. Rios has found actionable efficiency levers for a diverse set of federal clients with divergent budgets, mission requirements and operating structures.
Simplify Bureaucratic Procedures…
Leaders frequently don’t have visibility into the total bureaucratic burden of their agency’s policies, procedures, and practices. The cumulative effect of years of added steps can obfuscate priorities and hinder innovation. We work with senior leaders to articulate clear policy goals and desired, measurable results, to return to core-agency activities.
After clarifying strategic priorities, we move forward with mapping all the current bureaucratic process steps to quantify the cumulative level of effort required to sustain the status quo. Placing each step in sequence gives a macro view of the total bureaucratic lifecycle. By analyzing each step to assess if it is critical, we uncover redundant and antiquated pieces of red tape. From there we identify the source of each unneeded step – legislative, policy, procedural, or organizational cultural norm.
… to unlock mission-critical resources
To prioritize the changes required to enact
policy goals, we then help organizations
rewrite rules and procedures, update
policies, and leverage automation to
lighten the bureaucratic burden. We work
with the agency to build the necessary
change management practices to drive
new approaches through the organization
to ensure sustained red tape reduction
Rios Partners can help you lighten your bureaucratic burden in as little as 6 weeks!
