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The Director-General of the Bahrain Institute of Public Administration (BIPA), HE Dr. Raed Mohammed bin Shams, has emphasized BIPA's ongoing endeavors to meet challenges facing BIPA by introducing innovative and creative solutions. He pointed out that BIPA is currently considering a set of obligatory initiatives, which aim at increasing BIPA's revenue within a rationalization policy. This is achieved by creating some new initiatives and programs in collaboration with the private sector. Such initiatives and programs are expected to form a major breakthrough in BIPA's self-generating revenues. Dr. Bin Shams has stressed that BIPA is on the right track to achieve its strategy and to set a clear plan for future Government performance. "The quality of programs and services provided by BIPA to all clients will not be affected by budgetary constraint. Rather, they will be diversified and enhanced by creating and adding new channels that will contribute to attaining the objectives of BIPA", Bin Shams said. "Search for additional financial sources will further facilitate management processes and achievements of BIPA's strategic objectives", he added. Bin Shams pointed out that the purpose of such initiatives revolves around studying various patterns of international business models through which options will be identified to create employment opportunities and financial source alternatives to support administrative work at BIPA, side by side with the trend towards self-reliance in finance for BIPA's services. The Director-General has revealed that BIPA has formed a specialized task force to implement such obligatory initiatives to find out alternative sources of finance by adopting four international models, the first of which is Unbundling, a model based on providing services available with the organization to a larger scale of the category it serves without additional investments in services, or providing such available services to groups associated with the category targeted by the organization. The second is Long Tail, a multi-specialized services model; it is based on providing a large number of specialized services sold proportionately or irregularly to support the sales of each of the other services. It is not essential to observe conflict of the categories served by the organization. The third model is Multi-Sided Platform. This model is based on a combination of two or more different groups of customers in a joint location of the organization in order to make use of all parties. The final model is the free services. This model is based on providing a certain category with free services the cost of which has been covered by other categories or levels, so that most of the categories targeted by the organization will benefit from free services.