It is no exaggeration to say that the Olympic games, with 28 sports, 300+ events, dozens of venues, 10,500 athletes, over 7 million attending fans, 4.5 billion TV viewers, and over $5 billion in total revenue, add up to the most complex mega-sports event on earth. Everything about the Olympics is big. But the complexity is not a result of sheer size; it arises because success depends on myriad autonomous actors making good decisions, and on many different stakeholders seeing their (sometimes competing) expectations satisfied.
Scoring the London Olympics’ Performance
It is no exaggeration to say that the Olympic games, with 28 sports, 300+ events, dozens of venues, 10,500 athletes, over 7 million attending fans, 4.5 billion TV viewers, and over $5 billion in total revenue, add up to the most complex mega-sports event on earth. Everything about the Olympics is big. But the complexity […]
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