Let’s Innovate Together

Introduction

Technology and Business Innovation (TBI) under the Planning and Operations Directorate (POD) is responsible for leading the development of the Regulatory Operations and Enforcement Branch (ROEB) investment plan, improving business, and solving problems. Investing in innovation is a major pillar for TBI; it aims to position the Branch as a leader in compliance and enforcement excellence by using innovative approaches to improve regulatory operations.

There is a new Innovation group in TBI called “remic” with a focus on novel approaches, testing via experiments to assess new technologies to potentially modernize and transform ROEB inspection service delivery systems. Remic brings together regulators, researchers, social scientists, data scientists, business and industry experts to collaborate, share, and co-create solutions to support ROEB objectives.

To support capacity building and co-learning within ROEB, TBI planned and executed two workshop sessions with an emphasis on sharing and exploring. The goal was to:

• Promote mindset, skills and behaviours necessary for innovation and experimentation
• Highlight employee-led experimentation (innovation) initiative
• Build knowledge and capacity in ROEB and be leaders in the C&E Transformation
• Nurture ideas into future projects (Submit ideas to Solutions Fund)

During February 2020, TBI visited Toronto and Montreal to facilitate the ‘innovation workshop’ sessions. This report will provide the detailed summary of the workshops and the collected results.