From Connecting Content to Catching Criminals.
In 2016, Systemscope Inc. and our partners worked with Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Innovation, Sciences et Développement économiq, specifically Corporations Canada, and the 13 provinces and territories to conceptualize the Multi-Jurisdictional Registry Access Service (MRAS). I know, but think of it like Buckley's ... the name isn't great, but it works.
MRAS pulled together 3 elusive services to connect Canada's disconnected business registries, whose absence was causing red tape and barriers to inter-provincial trade. This included federal search, extra-provincial registration, and change notifications across the pan-Canadian system. MRAS is a "data interoperability broker" that holds no information, but allows all registries to talk to each other while still abiding by their own policies, business rules and processes.
This was very exciting for the federal/provincial/territorial (FPT) partners because this problem had been identified as a barrier since the Agreement on Internal Trade of 1994. Through the right balance of business transformation, data innovation, agile digital prowess and a whole lot of change management and governance, the MRAS beta was born in 2018.
Now that we're in 2024, two significant elements have presented themselves. The first is that after 6 years in Beta, the provincial/territorial partners have agreed to declare the latest update, with extended search and advanced filtering, the first production version of MRAS! Congratulations to all of our FPT partners for this significant milestone in a journey that began with #TheTrainHasSailed.
The second element is in response to the Cullen Report (2022) recommendations to mitigate money laundering, human trafficking and terrorist financing through the implementation of beneficial ownership information associated with Canadian company registrations. We have been using agile experimentation to work with participating FPT partners to use MRAS as a foundation for beneficial ownership in Canada. Having completed the first two phases of exploration and design, we are moving toward a third phase to continue to push this agenda.
The journey continues, and is a reflection of some of the core philosophies that we embrace as leaders in transformation:
1) Fall in love with the problem, not the solution.
2) Transformation transcends business, service and digital through to mindset.
3) Digital is easy. Change is hard. Focus just as much on the emotional journey of users and stakeholders as you do on the digital transformation.
4) Own it like your career depends on it, because it does.
5) Agile doesn't mean fast. "Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast."
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