Title: Presentation on Profile of GC Internal Services Summary final updated version .95
1Presentation onProfile of GC Internal Services-
Summary - (final updated version .95)
- Richard Bryson
- Senior Director
- Alignment and Interoperability Division
- Chief Information Officer Branch
Bruce Stacey Executive Director Results-based
Management Division
June 5, 2008
2Topics
- Purpose of (draft) Profile of GC Internal
Services - Background \ Approach
- (draft) Profile of GC Internal Services
- Service Groupings
- Definitions of 11 groupings
- Outline Summary View
- Next Steps
3Purpose of (draft) Profile of GC Internal Services
- Typically referred to as Corporate Services,
the Government of Canadas (GC) Internal Services
enable public programs, as well as other internal
services, to operate more efficiently and
effectively - The Profile of GC Internal Services outlines a
whole-of-government perspective and reference of
the GCs internal services for supporting a
common government-wide approach to planning,
design, budgeting, reporting and communications
of GC internal services - As described in Management, Resources, and
Results Structure Policy Instructions to
Departments for Developing a Management,
Resources, and Result Structure (Treasury Board
of Canada Secretariat) - The MRRS Policy provides the federal government
with an integrated, modern expenditure management
framework to establish a common government-wide
approach to the collection, management, and
public reporting of financial and non-financial
performance information. - The PAA is an architecture consisting of a
structured inventory of programs being delivered
that contribute to the achievement of the
department's Strategic Outcomes. - Internal services are an integral part of the
PAA and should be set out in a separate Program
Activity
4Background Approach
- Initial draft August 2006 prepared by TBS,
Chief Information Office Branch (CIOB) - based upon research and analysis of common GC
internal service support requirements, best
practices, Expenditure Reviews (ERC 2004),
service design initiatives (e.g. CPSA HR Design,
CIOB Profile of IT), best practice reference
models (e.g. Governments of Canada Strategic
Reference Models (GSRM) - CIOB,
Multi-Institutional Disposition Authorities,
Common Administrative Records Library and
Archives ) - Incorporated as part of the MRRS Policy
Instructions to Departments for Developing a
Management, Resources, and Result Structure, in
preparation for the PAA update process for
2008-09 (Annex Treasury Board of Canada
Secretariat Profile of the 13 Internal Service
Categories) - Review and Refinements, Internal Services SFO
Working Group April to October, 2007 - Results-based Management (RBM) Directorate of TBS
presented Profile of Internal Services at
Quarterly SFO meeting - Formed SFO working group for review, refinements
and recommendations - Internal Services SFO Working Group, comprised of
a group representing departments (see Annex)
co-chaired by RBM and CIOB of TBS - Completed working sessions, building in
refinements and feedback including analysis and
alignment with more recent TBS management
policies as a basis for controlled vocabulary - Results and Recommendations completed by Internal
Services SFO working group - October 31/07 - Presentations for final endorsement and
confirmation being completed by TBS (RMS and
CIOB, co-chairs) by Q1 2008/09
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6(draft) Profile of GC Internal Services
- Internal Services
- Governance Management Support
- Management Oversight
- Communications
- Legal
- Resource Management Services
- Human Resource Management
- Financial Management
- Information Management
- Information Technology
- Travel and Other Administrative Services
- Asset Management Services
- Real Property
- Materiel
- Acquisition
7(draft) Profile of GC Internal Services
- Internal Services
- Governance Management Support
- Management Oversight
- Communications
- Legal
- Resource Management Services
- Human Resource Management
- Financial Management
- Information Management
- Information Technology
- Travel and Other Administrative Services
- Asset Management Services
- Real Property
- Materiel
- Acquisition
Program Activity Sub-Activity Sub-Sub
Activity Sub-Sub Activity Sub-Sub Activity
Sub-Activity Sub-Sub Activity Sub-Sub
Activity Sub-Sub Activity Sub-Sub
Activity Sub-Sub Activity Sub-Activity Sub-Sub
Activity Sub-Sub Activity Sub-Sub Activity
Micro Agencies (15 FTEs or less) report at
single Program Activity Level (ONLY) Smaller
Departments / Agencies (less than 500 FTEs less
than 300M total budget) report at 3
Sub-Activity Levels (ONLY) All Other Departments
/ Agencies (500 FTEs or more and/or 300M or more
total budget) report at all 11 Sub-Sub Activity
Levels
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Governance and Management Support -
Management and Oversight Services Definition.
Management and Oversight Services involve
activities undertaken for determining strategic
direction, and allocating resources among
services and processes, as well as those
activities related to analyzing exposure to risk
and determining appropriate countermeasures. They
ensure that the service operations and programs
of the federal government comply with applicable
laws, regulations, policies, and/or plans.
Service Groupings for Management and Oversight
Services include Strategic Policy and Planning
and Government Relations (incl. Federal /
Provincial / Territorial / International)
Executive Services Corporate Policy, Standards,
Guidelines Program / Service Management
Investment Planning Project Management Risk
Management Performance and Reporting Internal
Audit Evaluation. Communications
Services Definition. Communications Services
involve activities undertaken to ensure that
Government of Canada communications are
effectively managed, well coordinated and
responsive to the diverse information needs of
the public. The communications management
function ensures that the public internal or
external receives government information, and
that the views and concerns of the public are
taken into account in the planning, management
and evaluation of policies, programs, services
and initiatives. Service Groupings for
Communications Services include Public Opinion
Research Corporate Identity Consultations
Media Relations Advertising, Fairs, Exhibits
In-Person Service, Telephone, Facsimile, Mail,
Internet Translation Publications. Legal
Services Definition. Legal Services involve
activities undertaken to enable government
departments and agencies to pursue policy,
program and service delivery priorities and
objectives within a legally sound framework.
Services include the provision of policy and
program advice, direction in the development and
drafting of the legal content of bills,
regulations, and guidelines assistance in the
identification, mitigation and management of
legal risks legal support in ensuring compliance
and enforcement of standards, regulations and
guidelines and representing the Crowns
interests in litigation. Service Groupings for
Legal Services include Legal Advice Preparation
of Legal Documents Litigation Services
Legislative Drafting Legal Oversight.
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Resource Management (1 - 2) -
Human Resources Management Services Definition.
Human Resources Management Services involve
activities undertaken for determining strategic
direction, allocating resources among services
and processes, as well as activities relating to
analyzing exposure to risk and determining
appropriate countermeasures. They ensure that the
service operations and programs of the federal
government comply with applicable laws,
regulations, policies, and/or plans. Service
Groupings for Human Resources Management Services
include HR Planning, Work, Organization Design
and Reporting Job and Position Management
Employee Acquisition and Orientation Total
Compensation Employee Performance, Learning,
Development and Recognition Permanent and
Temporary Separations Workplace
Management. Financial Management
Services Definition. Financial Management
Services involve activities undertaken to ensure
the prudent use of public resources, including
planning, budgeting, accounting, reporting,
control and oversight, analysis, decision support
and advice, and financial systems. Service
Groupings for Financial Management Services
include Financial Planning Budgeting
Accounting Management Expenditure Control
Payments Service Collections and Receivables
Service Asset and Liability Management
Service. Information Management Services
Definition. Information Management Services
involve activities undertaken to achieve
efficient and effective information management to
support program and service delivery foster
informed decision making facilitate
accountability, transparency, and collaboration
and preserve and ensure access to information and
records for the benefit of present and future
generations. Information management is the
discipline that directs and supports effective
and efficient management of information in an
organization, from planning and systems
development to disposal or long-term
preservation. Service Groupings for Information
Management Services include Information Needs
Management Information Structure Design and
Maintenance Information Acquisition Information
Organization Information Provisioning
Information Protection, Preservation and
Disposition.
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Resource Management (2 2) -
Information Technology Services Definition.
Information Technology Services involve
activities undertaken to achieve efficient and
effective use of information technology to
support government priorities and program
delivery, to increase productivity, and to
enhance services to the public. The management of
information technology includes planning,
building (or procuring), operating and measuring
performance. Service Groupings for Information
Technology Services include Distributed
Computing Application/Database Development
Maintenance Production and Operations Computing
Telecommunications Network (Data and Voice) IT
Security. Travel and Other Administrative
Services Definition. Travel and Other
Administrative Services include GC travel
services, as well as those other internal
services that do not smoothly fit with any of the
internal services categories. Service Groupings
for Travel and Other Administrative Services
include Travel Other Administrative Services.
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Management -
Real Property Services Definition. Real
Property Services involve activities undertaken
to ensure real property is managed in a
sustainable and financially responsible manner,
throughout its life cycle, to support the
cost-effective and efficient delivery of
government programs. Real property is defined as
any right, interest or benefit in land, which
includes mines, minerals and improvements on,
above or below the surface of the land. Service
Groupings for Real Property Services include
Acquisition Operations and Management
Disposal. Materiel Services Definition.
Materiel Services involve activities undertaken
to ensure that materiel can be managed by
departments in a sustainable and financially
responsible manner that supports the
cost-effective and efficient delivery of
government programs. Materiel is defined as all
movable assets, excluding money and records,
acquired by Her Majesty in right of Canada.
Materiel management entails all activities
necessary to acquire, hold, use and dispose of
materiel, including the notion of achieving the
greatest possible efficiency throughout the life
cycle of materiel assets. Service Groupings for
Materiel Services include Acquisition
Operations and Management Disposal. Acquisitio
n Services (formerly Procurement
Services) Definition. Acquisition Services
involve activities undertaken to acquire a good
or service to fulfil a properly completed request
(including a complete and accurate definition of
requirements and certification that funds are
available) until entering into or amending a
contract. Service Groupings for Acquisition
Services include Goods Acquisitions Services
Acquisitions Construction Acquisitions Other
Acquisitions (acquisitions that fall outside the
definitions of goods or services).
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13Next Steps
- Presentations for final endorsement and
confirmation being completed by TBS (RMS and
CIOB, co-chairs) - by Q1 2008/09 - Senior Financial Officer (SFO) Committee Next
Quarterly Meeting - (Completed) MRRS Steering Committee
- (Completed) Directors Coordinating Committee
(DCC) - (Completed) Finalize definitions for micro and
smaller dept / agency - Publication of final version - by Q1 2008/09
- Incorporate revised Profiles of the GC Internal
Services as part of the next PAA update process
for the 2009-2010
14Annex
- SFO Working Group
- References
15Annex - SFO Working Group (1 of 3)
Represents original Working Group members who
worked on the development of the revised Internal
Service profile categories. An updated
membership list of the SFO Working Group can be
provided upon request.
16Annex - SFO Working Group (2 of 3)
Represents original Working Group members who
worked on the development of the revised Internal
Service profile categories. An updated
membership list of the SFO Working Group can be
provided upon request.
17Annex - SFO Working Group (3 of 3)
Represents original Working Group members who
worked on the development of the revised Internal
Service profile categories. An updated
membership list of the SFO Working Group can be
provided upon request.
18Annex - References
- GC Expenditure Review Committee ERC CAS Survey
(TBS 2004, 2005) - GC Expenditure Review Committee Final Report
(TBS 2005) - Defining Corporate Services Components - SFFO
Working Group (TBS, 2003) - End-to-end HR Story - draft (Public Service Human
Resource Management Agency of Canada (PSHRMAC),
2006) - GC Corporate Administrative Services Review
(Treasury Board Secretariat, Chief Information
Officer Branch, 2005) - IM Program Vision - draft (Treasury Board
Secretariat, Chief Information Officer Branch,
Information Management Strategies Division, 2006) - Information Management Program and Services
Alignment Model (PSAM) (Treasury Board
Secretariat, Chief Information Officer Branch,
Information Management Strategies Division, 2006) - Profile of GC IT Services (Treasury Board
Secretariat, Chief Information Officer Branch,
Enterprise Architecture, 2006) - Business Activity Classification Sub-system
(BASC), Organizing Business Information to Meet
Government Objectives (Library and Archives
Canada, 2006) - Multi-Institutional Disposition Authorities,
Common Administrative Records Administration,
Modern Comptrollership, Human Resources, Real
Property (Library and Archives Canada, 1999,
2006) - Federated Enterprise Architecture (FEA)
Consolidated Reference Model Document (Office of
Management and Budgets (OMB), 2005) - GSRM - Business Transformation Enablement Program
- Executive Overview, Methodology, Service
Patterns, Handbook (Treasury Board Secretariat,
2004) - Initial Target HR Business Design, (Public
Service Commission (PSC), 2006) - Support Services Process Framework (Natural
Resources Canada, 2003) - TBS Policy Suite Renewal (PSR) Treasury Board
Secretariat, 2007) - TBS Policies (various) MRRS, Internal Audit,
Information Management, Management of Information
Technology, HR related policies, Finance related
policies, Real Property, Materiel, Procurement,
Project Management, Investment Planning, Risk
Management, Communications and associated Policy
Frameworks - TBS MRRS PAA Instructions 2007-07 (Treasury
Board Secretariat) - TBS MAF (Treasury Board Secretariat)
- APQC Process Classification Framework (APQC 2006)
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20Supporting Materials
21The Public Service Value Chain
Strong services internally and externally
contribute to confidence in the public service
Internal Services
Engaged Supported Employees
Trust Confidence
Citizen Service Satisfaction
External Services
Modern and Transformed Government
Heintzman and Marson 2003
22Draft Profile of GC Internal Services -
Activities and Approach -
Draft As Is Profile of Internal Services
August, 2006
Final Updated Draft To Be
SFO WG May, June, July Meetings
Activities
Policy Alignment and Affinity Groupings
SFO Feedback, Suggestions
Policy Framework Linkages
Review Suggested Revisions / Considerations
Controlled Vocabulary
approach to review and analysis guided by
supporting Policy Frameworks and individual
Policies.