emad rizkalla, ceo bluedrop performance inc. keynotes on "powering growth through public...

Powering Growth through Public Private Partnerships

Accountable. Scalable . Sustainable .

Workforce Super-Systems

Complex Equipment and Mission Training

Bluedrop Past Clients : World Leaders in 7 Industries

Our Past Clients : World Leaders in 7 Industries

Our Past Clients : World Leaders in 7 Industries

Provide Integrated Skills Management (ISM) systems for Workforce Super-systems. We created a new product category to tackle intractable challenges

Pivot—To Where Technology Would Make the Greatest Impact

Serving More People. Faster. Better

Our Bluedrop360 is exclusively focused on areas underserved by technology industry.

We work on large scale programs. Often utilizing a partnership model

We enable workers, communities and economies to thrive.

One solution - powerful enough to tame the chaos of multiple stakeholders

Partnerships Because Workforce is Complex

Intermediaries

Employers

End users

Regulatory bodies

Funders and Aggregators

Training Provider

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Partnering Globally

The Core of Any Partnerships :

Win. Win. Private Sector. Public Sector.

The Core of Any Partnerships :

Win. Win. Win.Private Sector. Public Sector.

End Users!

Public Private Partnerships No two are alike.

Key Trait: the Public Sector delegates the management of traditional activities to the Private Sector.

Two key types:

1. Purely contractual nature --- rights and obligations are set in contracts.

2. Institutional Nature– set up an new entity and manage it together. Rights and obligations are set by shareholders agreement.

Advantages and Disadvantages

PPP Advantages • Ensure higher quality and timely provision of public

services• Eliminate runaway project costs– reduce public sector

risk• Leverage Private Sector Investment • Less risk of corruption or mismanagement when

operational • Often finds a way to remove debt from public sector

balance sheets

PPP Disadvantages:

• Service delivery– could– cost more than straight procurement

• PPP procurement can be open to corruption, too hasty and/or too slow

• PPP project agreements are long-term, complicated and comparatively inflexible• If conditions change radically they may be hard for

both parties to re-negotiate.

Why? Refocus energy -- Demand driven versus supply driven.

Share risk and rewards between public sector entity and private company. Needs to be an element of ‘pay for performance’

Align focus on outputs versus inputs. Best Value for public systems which are often focused on input factors:– number of teachers and buildings

versus, outputs -- number of graduates, ability of graduates or number of jobs

Accountability can be very high

Allows public sector to innovate and take risks

Overcomes built in resistance in public sector entities by transferring some elements to private sector

Example 1 : Scalable Virtual Services Delivery

• Long Beach, CA using our platform to roll out services to job seekers, current workers and employers

• Bluedrop providing contribution in licensing funding and content development services

• Platform streamlines workflow

• Both invested in development--- some pay tied to results

Example 2: Women’s Entrepreneurship

• Award winning global women’s entrepreneurship

• Public Sector University, Corporate CSR and Bluedrop

• Bluedrop invested– and has repurposed and resold the system around the world – there is a royalty agreement with Arizona State

• Core content is free thanks to Freeport

PPP in e-Learning? Some Thoughts: Kenya spends significantly on education– look at it as ‘KES per well educated graduate’ . PPP should seek to reallocate funds at a lower per student cost to deliver that target Help scale access to quality learning for Kenyan students at all levelsPPP can be used to improve quality of educational delivery if payments are partially tied to outcomes that relate to quality. They can focus on outputs versus inputsFocus on areas of education system that are struggling to keep pace– and channel investment from Buildings to Seed Funding for a PPP. After that, pay based more on outputs than inputs Focus on areas not covered by formal education system. PPP can potentially broaden the training for the workforce to include job hunting skills, entry level skills, apprenticeships (learning on the job), soft skills, sales skills etc.…. PPP can be used to secure partial funding or payment deferral/discount from Private sector companies

What’s worse than training employees and losing them?

Not training them and keeping them.