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STRATEGIC GOALS CORPORATE OBJECTIVES WHAT WE PLAN TO DO
 
Quality Services and Border Protection, Fair Administration, Simple and Efficient Processes, Knowledgeable and Skilled People, Effective Management and Corporate Services
1. Have in place an agency-wide service strategy
  • Benchmark service performance and identify best practices in service delivery.
  • Cluster service initiatives with a common client base to ensure greater consistency, accessibility, and efficiency.
  • Expand the use of client feedback for service enhancements and quality assurance across all programs, including the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Tax Credit Program.
2. Develop and strengthen partnerships particularly with the provinces and territories
  • Ensure that the proper conditions are in place to earn further business with other levels of government.
  • Work together with the Canadian voluntary sector toward the achievement of mutual goals.
  • Increase ongoing consultation and dialogue with our partners.
3. Advance the use of electronic service delivery
  • Assess current and emerging developments in technology for their compatibility with our clients' service needs.
  • Facilitate the international movement of people and goods by making additional electronic service delivery options available to clients.
  • Expand the use of the Internet as a service delivery vehicle.
4. Align our activity and influence internationally
  • Simplify and standardize customs procedures among G7 countries.
  • Implement the action plan developed in the context of the CCRA's International Relations Strategy.
  • Increase our capacity to exchange knowledge and information among customs and revenue administrations.
5. Refine our risk management approach and have in place comprehensive, balanced, and dynamic compliance strategies
  • Combine public awareness and education with enforcement efforts.
  • Improve our ability to analyze compliance trends and patterns, and profile and target risk by sector or geography.
  • Bridge enforcement gaps at the border by investing in high-risk areas and increasing our detection capacity.
6. Enhance the fairness of our programs and demonstrate this commitment to our clients
  • Develop a guide on the rights of our clients, and publish standards for the service we provide.
  • Better equip our employees to respond to client needs.
  • Identify credits, benefits, and overpayments for clients, and give clients an opportunity to correct any omissions in their past dealings without penalty.
7. Systematically improve our business processes
  • Re-engineer customs processes and eliminate import impediments.
  • Improve the efficiency of revenue processing.
  • Modernize the administration of the excise duties program.
8. Have in place a modern, world-class human resources system
  • Work towards a values-driven human resources (HR) administration that enhances the ability to attract and retain skilled employees, improves morale, and increases productivity.
  • Develop new partnerships between employees, managers, unions, and business clients.
  • Build on successes achieved to date in laying the necessary groundwork for the new system, including the HR policy framework.
9. Equip employees to adapt to constant and profound change
  • Emphasize integration of continuous learning into the organization.
  • Use technology in developing more flexible and responsive learning and performance solutions.
  • Emphasize communication between managers and employees to set goals and performance objectives and establish career development expectations.
10. Promote a corporate culture that establishes the CCRA as an employer of choice
  • Implement policies and programs that provide recognition and support to employees.
  • Emphasize the role of managers in effecting change.
  • Increase the use of technology to market opportunities and share information, exchange ideas, and automate HR administrative procedures.
11. Implement transparent and integrated management processes
  • Integrate branch and corporate planning with performance agreements and performance measurement.
  • Build greater capacity to assess the affordability of new programs together with the investments required to maintain existing programs.
  • Expand the planning process to include the Board of Management.
12.  Invest in our infrastructure to sustain future operations
  • Ensure the maintenance of core programs and services.
  • Continually renew infrastructure to ensure reliable and robust technology-current systems.

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