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Employee E-Bike Loan Program

The University of Victoria is dedicated to supporting and promoting sustainable transportation choices and infrastructure for the campus community, lowering emissions, and supporting healthy communities. The goal of the Employee E-Bike Loan Pilot Program is to further accelerate sustainable transportation options for commuting to campus and across the Greater Victoria area by incentivizing the purchase … Continue reading "Employee E-Bike Loan Program"

May 15, 2023

Digitization of pension plan member records

Pension Services administers the UVic Staff, Combination and Money Purchase pension plans. The primary driver of the timing of this project was the pandemic, however the solution itself was required to meet the department's long term, pre-pandemic need for digital record keeping. The purpose of this project was to digitize plan member files to: Increase responsiveness … Continue reading "Digitization of pension plan member records"

May 15, 2023

Transformational Risk and Assurance Services

The University of British Columbia (UBC) has been on a multi-year and multi-hundred-million-dollar large transformation journey to replace and modernize its Human Resources, Finance, and Student systems and processes to facilitate improved collaboration, innovation, and agility, thereby known as the Integrated Renewal Program (IRP). The Office of Enterprise Risk and Assurance (ERA) has created a … Continue reading "Transformational Risk and Assurance Services"

May 15, 2023

Trends in Group Employee Benefits – April 25, 2023

Date: April 25, 2023 Duration: 90 minutes Presenters: Geneviève Lemieux, GBA, Partner, Québec and Ottawa Health Business Leader, Mercer Canada Vincent Boudreau-Plouffe, FSA, FCIA, Associate, Group Benefits, Mercer Canada Click here to download the English presentation Click here to download the French presentation

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April 26, 2023

Smart Lockers at Wilfrid Laurier University

In 2021, Wilfrid Laurier University became the first Canadian university to adopt the newly launched Pitney Bowes ParcelPoint™ Smart Lockers.  The successful pilot at the Waterloo campus has already led to expansion of the smart lockers to the Brantford campus. Investing into this innovative technology has enabled Distribution Services to change its delivery model for … Continue reading "Smart Lockers at Wilfrid Laurier University"

June 15, 2022

Laurier Energy Efficiency Project (LEEP)

Electrical power production in Ontario is changing from centralized to decentralized. The commercial availability of renewable energy and energy storage technologies have made big strides forward. As such, in a landscape with increasing risks to campus operations, Laurier elected to develop an energy strategy that would improve climate adaptation, progress reliability and resiliency of energy … Continue reading "Laurier Energy Efficiency Project (LEEP)"

June 15, 2022

Facilitating Knowledge Exchange and Staff Connection: Simon Fraser University (SFU)’s Project Management Community of Practice

Recent studies have begun to document the importance of building a project management community of practice (CoP) in academic settings, particularly research administration (Lehman, 2017; Wedekind & Philbin, 2018). Benefits of CoPs include improving organizational efficiency and effectiveness and improving the confidence and connectedness of staff in increasingly complex and uncertain environments (Lee et al., … Continue reading "Facilitating Knowledge Exchange and Staff Connection: Simon Fraser University (SFU)’s Project Management Community of Practice"

June 15, 2022

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