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Information Management in the Government of Canada: The Vision


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Key Principles and Strategies

The next phase of strategic design and planning will provide comprehensive strategic guidance for designing and building the target state of the IM Program. The key areas of improvement and their corresponding activities and innovations need strategic guidance to ensure that the new and improved IM capabilities that constitute the target state of the IM Program are implemented in the most timely and effective way.

The following core set of principles and strategies have guided work to produce The Vision and they will continue to provide a foundation for subsequent work in the Strategy Phase. (The origins of these principles and strategies are indicated in brackets.)

  • The Management of Government Information Policy (MGIP) will serve as a foundation for the design of the IM Program.  (IM Program decision)
  • Information is a valuable asset. (MGIP)
  • Government of Canada must manage information as a public trust on behalf of Canadians. (MGIP)
  • All employees are responsible for the management of information under their control and custody.  (MGIP)
  • Responsibility for information management should be as close to the final, public business output as possible.  (IM Program decision)
  • Every program in the Government of Canada is either a provider (internal) program or a public program.  (Business Transformation Enablement Program (BTEP) and the Governments of Canada Strategic Reference Models (GSRM))
  • The IM Program is a provider program. (IM Program decision)
  • In order to achieve integrity in program outcomes and consistency in service outputs, the realization of a program’s services in departments and agencies must follow an integrated program design. (BTEP/GSRM)
  • The IM Program is made up of services that are executed in central agencies and all services that contribute to its outcomes in all organizations of the Government of Canada. (IM Program decision)
  • Adopt global best practises for the management of information. (IM Program decision)
  • Take leading edge information management practices into account when designing the IM Program. (IM Program decision)
  • Measurement of program outcomes and of service outputs is necessary for the sustainable achievement of program outcomes. (BTEP/GSRM)
  • The effective, efficient and repeatable retrieval of information requires that information be organized. (IM Program decision)
  • The authority of a provider program is realized through the implementation of rules. (BTEP/GSRM)
  • Re-use and share information to the greatest extent possible. (MGIP)
  • Information management is most effective in a culture that values information and adopts supportive governance and accountability structures. (MGIP)


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