A triumphant Olympics was helped by a well organized Olympic Delivery Authority—lessons for business

You are currently browsing comments. If you would like to return to the full story, you can read the full entry here: “A triumphant Olympics was helped by a well organized Olympic Delivery Authority—lessons for business”.





3 thoughts on “A triumphant Olympics was helped by a well organized Olympic Delivery Authority—lessons for business

  1. I’m generally in agreement with you here – the brits deserve kudos for pulling off a very complex, high-profile event.

    I do think it needs pointing out that, at least as I understand it, the budgetary situation is not quite as rosy as you suggest. The fact that it’s ended up ‘under budget’ is due to the fact the budget has doubled during the lifetime of the Olympic Delivery Authority. It doesn’t require a cynic to suggest that the British public were sold the games on one set of costings and paid for them on another. To be fair the last revision upwards was some five years ago – more than enough time for even the revised budget to run out of control but nevertheless when such vast sums of the publics money is being spent for a fornight of “bread and circuses” cum visa-coke-mcdonalds-et-al boosting I would like to think a rather jaundiced look would be directed at all the monetary aspects of it.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *