It’s no state secret that the government is slow to do just about anything. No one is eager to spend a day in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles. Similarly, the prospect of a long Transportation Security Administration wait at the airport can dampen the hype of any vacation.

President Joe Biden showed his eagerness to change the government’s long-held reputation for slowness by recently signing an executive order designed to get things moving. The document contains a far-flung list of ideas, mostly centered on the digitization of applications and greater research into line management. But if Biden really wants to speed things up, he’ll have to look beyond these half-measures and embrace more wide-reaching reforms.