This is a case study produced as part of the CCAF paper on Innovation, Risk and Control. This case study describes Statistics Canada’s culture and management structure. It then looks at how the agency encouraged innovation in the execution of a major project – the 2006 Census.
Proficiency Requirements for Comprehensive Auditing – A Reference Guide
The objective of this study was to provide comprehensive audit practitioners and their organizations with a set of ideas, frameworks and tools that they can adapt and use to analyze their particular situation and needs. A corollary aim was to help them to identify, discuss and put in place an agenda for action dealing with the results of their assessment — to sustain, demonstrate, broaden, or improve their proficiency in this area of audit practice
Innovation, Risk and Control: A Public Sector Guide to Encouraging Innovation, Understanding, Control, Managing Risk, Reducing Red Tap… and Delivering Better Results for Citizens
Public institutions are critical to Canada’s well being and must be managed to a high professional standard. This document discusses how executive managers in the public sector can support innovation and in so doing, solve difficult problems and deliver better value to citizens.
For better or worse, new technologies and personal experience with service providers continually shape citizens’ attitudes toward the public sector. Citizens expect governments to resolve complex problems seamlessly, even when those problems breach economic and geo-political boundaries. And citizens can now comment on the design and delivery of policies and programs from anywhere at any time, often from a handheld device.
Institutional Foundations for Performance Budgeting: The Case of the Government of Canada
In 2007, the Canadian Government introduced a new expenditure management system designed to be more performance based and improve value for money in program spending.
This paper describes the changes underway in expenditure management, and the challenges faced by the public service, as it adjusts to produce the program performance information demanded by this new system. It outlines what Canada wants to achieve with its new system, and the steps it is taking to build the capacity necessary to support it. The paper also identifies lessons learned to date that could be used by other countries.
