The fourth generation of government excellence system include a number of characteristics that makes it unique. It ensures the achievement of quality and unprecedented added value to government bodies, which applied it. The system observes differences and privacy in the nature of work of institutions, and focusses on results achieved by the parties in accordance with the tasks assigned to them to achieve the national agenda. It motivate the institutions to look for future and keep pace with latest developments.

It also focuses on ensuring a competitive advantage for the State and the institution that implements it through advanced levels of achievement in the global competitiveness indexes and sustainable long-term results.

The fourth generation of government excellence system has been endorsed as a basis for assessing the government institutions involved in the Mohammed bin Rashid Award for Excellence in Government Performance, with the aim to gauge maturity level reached by those authorities in the journey towards leadership, and identifying areas of improvement as well as opportunities to help them achieve ambitious goals.