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performance against best practices, helping our
Client-Partner optimize project and program delivery,
and improving our business management systems—
including an electronic records and document manage-
ment system.
As we move forward, it has never been more important
that we create a culture of collaboration, notes James
Paul. Our business plans address this key initiative in
various ways, but especially through promoting effective
communication. In the past decade, the pace of growth
at DCC and the new areas in which we’re operating—
from environmental clean up to deployed operations
overseas—have meant that many of our employees
have only a few years of service with us.
Those staff members are bringing an incredible degree
of skill and talent with them, and a similarly valuable
amount of experience and judgment rests with personnel
who’ve been with DCC for decades. Encouraging
communication allows that expertise and experience to
come together for the benefit not just of DCC, but of
DND as well. We’ve outlined an internal partnering
agenda within our service lines, and effective communi-
cation throughout the Corporation is one way to drive
that agenda.
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Looking forward
During its 60 years of operation, DCC has helped build
a vast array of facilities: airfields, barrack blocks,
officers’ and non-commissioned officers’ quarters,
armouries, mess halls, chapels, hangars, hospitals,
administration buildings, training buildings, supply
depots, warehouses, workshops, armament buildings,
fire halls, oil pipelines, power lines, steam lines, labora-
tories, sewer and water lines, power dams, reservoirs,
housing, schools, libraries, tank ranges, tank washing
facilities, firing ranges, roads and sidewalks, wharfs,
nursing residences, recreation halls, curling rinks,
swimming pools, gymnasiums and dry docks.
Along the way, the Corporation has worked throughout
Canada—on every coast and far into the Arctic. It has
worked in the Caribbean, Asia, India and Europe—
and operationally in Bosnia–Herzegovina and, most
recently, Afghanistan. It has expanded its service
offerings and continually improved the timeliness and
quality of those services.
DCC may have grown exponentially and been responsible
for some of the most lasting symbols of Canada’s
20th-century growth, but it retains the same principles
that created its success from the very beginning:
dedication, fairness and competence. Preserving the
integrity of the contracting process while meeting both
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