Every four years the Olympic Games pushes back the understanding of major event management, with the eyes of the world rest on a country that is expected to host hundreds of athletes, thousands of support staff and media, hundreds of thousands of visitors and billions of fans who are watching events live on their televisions, computers and portable devices across the globe.
However, even for lesser events, the likelihood is that the underlying infrastructure that is used to support the development, delivery and on-going management of the event will be tested to a level that has never been experienced before and which requires long-term planning and multi-stakeholder capability development of the highest level.
