May 2005 - Pan Canadian Standard a consideration…..

The Reference Model for Management Services Series (MRM, PSRM, GSRM), are gaining momentum as instruments to speak the same language for use in service transformation across all levels of government.

At this year's Lac Carling 2005 entitled "Service Transformation, Taking the Next Steps Together", plenary sessions covered service mapping initiatives and success stories from all governments, and highlighted work we do. A standard approach to transforming government will assist in multi jurisdictional efforts, and assist in better outcomes to citizens.

The Lac Carling Agenda can be viewed at:

Lac Carling 2005

Chartwell CEO & President Jeff Smith attended, along with 20 other vendors and 200 government delegates. Outcomes will be featured in CIO Government June/July 2005 edition.


Exciting Projects!
Chartwell's team has been working on a number of key multi jurisdictional initiatives, the Collaborative Senior's Portal; the Collaborative Ontario Immigration Portal and the Common Portal for the Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities and the Ministry of Education.

Exciting work is taking place, a through line from business architecture to logical design. These are significant milestones for government's agenda for e-service delivery excellence. Work to date has been well received.

Chartwell has a new opportunity in the financial sector, to apply the business modeling methods to a major merger. Exciting work ahead!

Our Education Program, launched formally with our Nexient Learning partner in April 2004, has been extremely well received. We have supplemented our curriculum development to include additional courses, from the business architecture, to the logical architecture layer. The evaluations from participants have been excellent. Our plan includes exploring university credits for an MBA Program for Business Design, more to come on that.

The courses are aligned with both the Federal and Provincial EA programs. Participants from all clusters in the province have been on the training, as well as folks from various Federal departments from Ottawa to BC. An approach receiving great feedback has been providing architecture consulting expertise in concert with training the business analysts and project managers on large transformation engagements, ramping up the team so all participants speak the same language and understand the standards and approach. It's a team building/knowledge transfer approach that mobilizes the team, creates excitement and a shared understanding. A good deal of customized training and mentoring has also gone hand in hand with consulting delivery.

This is a great value proposition for our clients. Please contact Ingrid Fazio at Nexient Learning Ingrid.Fazio@cdilearn.com for course outlines and schedules.


Chartwell sponsored awareness sessions are bringing people together!Chartwell hosted two awareness sessions on 'Using Reference Models to Support Strategic Change', in Ottawa and Toronto. The response was excellent, 19 Federal departments attended in Ottawa, and in Toronto, 40 participants from BC, Alberta and Nova Scotia on the phones, with 90 or so in attendance from the OPS, and municipalities. Presenters from Federal, Provincial departments, and the City of Toronto presented their success stories using an architected approach to transformation.

To view presentations, please see our site at
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These 3 representatives have come together, from Ontario, Nova Scotia and Alberta to co-fund and develop an Executive Briefing on Enterprise Architecture; initial offering will be the OPS EA Open House June 7th.

  • Stan Mathewson, Manager, Office of Strategic Planning and Architecture, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources

  • John Chandler, Chief Enterprise Architect, Alberta Research Council, Province of Alberta

  • Dan Gautreau, Senior Project Executive, Alternative Program Delivery, Service Nova Scotia & Municipal Relations

There is also a broader initiative, with support from federal counterparts, to explore a Pan Canadian Community of Interest.


Upcoming Events!
The provincial EA Open House is coming up in June. More information can be found at http://www.verney.ca/ea2005/

Event: Enterprise Architecture Open House, Province of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

Dave Wallace, Corporate Chief Technology Officer, Management Board Secretariat, is proud to sponsor this year's Enterprise Architecture Open House. This year's main theme is "The Agility Factors for an e-Ontario" and the major tracks are "Multi-Jurisdiction/Collaboration, Transformation and Applied Architecture".

The Open House will be held on Monday, June 6th to Wednesday, June 8th. This year's event has been especially designed to meet the demands of both business and I&IT staff. It will identify the latest progress in Enterprise Architecture, as well as the ways in which Businesses and IT have worked together successfully through Enterprise Architecture.

Event: Transforming Government Conference - Ottawa, Ontario

Chartwell is a Gold Sponsor at the following conference. We are providing a one day overview on business architecture, and two days of facilitating executive sessions on Enabling Transformation in Government. More to come as the agenda is finalized.

Event Theme:

 Better OUTCOMES for Citizens

Host and Partner:

Treasury Board Secretariat

Date and Venue

September 12 - 14, 2005 Hilton Lac-Leamy Conference Facilities


Transforming Government is a forum that highlights seamless, horizontal government initiatives within Canada and internationally.

It is a three-day government-wide educational forum and conference designed to:

  • Communicate the Government of Canada vision for transformation
  • Identify what governments have achieved towards transformation
  • Provide a Blueprint, Agenda and Tools for better Outcomes for Citizens

Audiences:
All federal government departments, provincial, municipal governments· Assistant Deputy Ministers, Chief Information Officers, Program Owners and Managers, Transformation Practitioners and Managers, Architecture Practitioners and Managers, Management involved in the planning of department-wide and multi-jurisdictional initiatives.

The Transforming Government conference provides you with tools necessary to be a player in implementing Government of Canada service transformation initiatives and on an enterprise level, you will obtain the knowledge of how future government initiatives will be conceived, designed and implemented

Chartwell is proud to work with our public sector partners to raise the bar for service delivery and better outcomes for citizens.