Enhance economic development of the Rio Grande Valley by being the definitive catalyst for regional partnerships to fulfill employers’ demand for a prepared workforce that can compete in an evolutionary, knowledge-based economy.

The illustration uses lifesaver shapes to depict the community segments essential for economic development. When held as separate entities, all are working toward a common goal but in isolation of each other. Leaders have only a small awareness and sense of responsibility for the global goal. Success is measured by localized metrics and not by metrics linked to the universal goal. This fosters short-term thinking and serves to perpetuate today’s problems to tomorrow.

When joined, the segments become true lifesavers, forming an interdependent and interactive environment in which a “systems” approach to workforce and economic development can be effected. The challenges of developing a knowledge-based and transferable workforce will only be met with breakthrough improvements; that is, working beyond the capabilities and capacities of our current processes and methods. Trying harder, working faster, and caring more but using the same methods will not bring the performance requisite of the challenge. Tech Prep Inc. is the intersection of the three segments. Tech Prep Inc. is the regional, multi-disciplined partnership which will provide a forum for the area’s top talent to access the best resources for revolutionary and evolutionary success in workforce development. This is Tech Prep Inc.

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