February 13th, 2018Committee meeting
Kirsten Tisdale
Government Operations committee I'd love to comment on that. You're 100% right. There's no downside for not making a decision, and there's no downside for making the safest decision. There is no upside for experimenting, so we do have to create the ability and the incentives so that people are actually able t
February 13th, 2018Committee meeting
Kirsten Tisdale
Government Operations committee Sure. There were a bunch of them. There was the revenue collection system, for example. Revenue is collected in about 147 different places across government, and they're all different, disconnected systems. What we did was basically go out and define what outcome we were looking
February 13th, 2018Committee meeting
Kirsten Tisdale
Government Operations committee These were all led by that secretariat.
February 13th, 2018Committee meeting
Kirsten Tisdale
Government Operations committee It was a combination. I was hired as an independent who was brought in on a contract, but in a titled role as a deputy. Everybody else I hired on contract. I replaced those people with government people over a period of time.
February 13th, 2018Committee meeting
Kirsten Tisdale
Government Operations committee It's a little bit of a sad story. It continued on for quite a few years, and it has morphed into something they call the Strategic Partnerships Office. However, they didn't sustain the funding for it and it has kind of lost its teeth, to be honest. It wasn't sustained.
February 13th, 2018Committee meeting
Kirsten Tisdale
Government Operations committee They're now trying to restart it again. We're actually having conversations about that. They're trying to figure out how to get back and do it again.
February 13th, 2018Committee meeting
Kirsten Tisdale
Government Operations committee Desktop services, all the technology, and payroll, all of those—
February 13th, 2018Committee meeting
Kirsten Tisdale
Government Operations committee Sorry; I didn't see that.
February 13th, 2018Committee meeting
Kirsten Tisdale
Government Operations committee I think there are two things. When we were facing this problem in British Columbia, what we recognized very quickly was that we didn't have the talent in-house and that it would take too long to grow it, so we put in place something almost like a SWAT team, a very small, smart, h
February 13th, 2018Committee meeting
Kirsten Tisdale
Government Operations committee Thank you very much. There's a presentation that I think is in your packs that I'll just generally refer to. I'll mostly just speak, but there's some material in there that might be useful to you later on. I very much appreciate the chance to come and speak with you today. When
February 13th, 2018Committee meeting
Kirsten Tisdale