Models for project management in 2016 Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are the major sports event on the planet gathering people for all over the world and integrating several kind of resources that need to be managed in order to achieve efficiency and the sustainability of the event. The research question of this paper is “Which project management business model best fit a mega event like the 2016 Olympic Games?” The organizations which participate in the Olympic Games project management in Rio are under the pressure of external scenarios of uncertainty and also intense competition and internally the organizations that manage all the Olympic resources need to deal with limitations of costs and time – the business model adopted can help to achieve a major success of the event. According to studies made on the past Olympics Project Managers face various challenges and the models adopted can made an integration of various and disperse project management tools. The main finding of this research is that project management maturity models benefits management approaches and reinforce the definition and the use of strategic plans enhancing the control techniques of project management and also the sustainability model is necessary to orchestrate the successful completion of a project with the amplitude of Olympic Games.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Rio de Janeiro and the 2016 Olympic Games: A Critical Frame Analysis of Competing Legacies

The Olympics Games is a spectacle that attracts international attention. This focus comes with scrutiny and expectations for the host countries and its urban spaces. There are many constituents involved in the preparation and management of mega-events like the Olympics. The international event presents a stage where power and inequality in urban settings are on display. Dramatic transformations of urban space that make way for Olympic infrastructure are justified in the name of accelerated development. The existing power dynamics are magnified by this spotlight. Rio de Janeiro, the former capital of Brazil, is hosting the Summer Olympic Games in 2016 and the competing discourse surrounding the preparation foreground the urban challenges and power struggles within Brazil. Competing legacies exist in which the Olympic growth machine is promoting a legacy of positive development and an image of a progressive and global Brazil, while marginalized Brazilians are promoting a legacy of inequality. This conflict of meaning is played out in the historically, highly public and politicized arena of athletics. Using frame analysis, this project presents a sociological analysis of Rio de Janeiro’s urban transformation in preparation for the 2016 Olympic Games. In particular, this study focuses on the competing economic, social, and political discourses of various International-, State-, and local-level social agents (i.e., International Olympic Committee, Brazilian Government, and local grassroots organizations) working to shape the legacy of this mega-event

The Olympic Games of Rio de Janeiro : project : related events and their political, aesthetical, economic and technological impacts on the main project actors

This study is concerned on Rio 2016 megaproject management undertaken by the principal project actors: The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (OCOG) and the Brazilian Government. Firstly, an introduction into megaprojects precedes the explanation of two intrinsically linked concepts, Complexity and Risk Management. Only after that fundamental portrayal two widely adopted theories in Megaproject research will be reviewed, namely Stakeholder theory and Institutional theory. In light of the literature and by means of a content analysis to local and international newspapers articles, the main project related events that occurred shortly before, during and after the Olympic Games were extracted and categorized. In total, twelve project related events were identified. The broader project management picture related to those issue is supported by a brief description of Rio 2016´s project governance. Finally, the paper finishes with the appeal to widen up the academic research on the complexity of the Olympic Games as there is a lacking explanatory and evaluative capability of the aforementioned theories in assessing the main conceptual undertakings of such a particular megaproject. After all, the unexpected issues that the abovementioned actors had to manage are best described by four impacting megaproject dimensions: The political impact, the aesthetic impact, the economic impact and the technological impact.Este estudo tem como foco a gestão do megaprojeto Rio 2016 realizada pelos principais atores do projeto: o Comitê Olímpico Internacional, o Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e o Governo Brasileiro. Em primeiro lugar, uma introdução em megaprojectos precede a explicação de dois conceitos intrinsecamente ligados, Complexidade e Gestão de Risco. Somente após esse retrato fundamental, duas teorias extensamente adotadas na pesquisa do megaprojeto serão revistas: Teoria do Stakeholder e Teoria Institucional. Segue, em luz da literatura e por meio de uma análise de conteúdo, uma coleta de artigos de jornais locais e internacionais sobre os principais eventos relacionados ao projeto, ocorridos pouco antes, durante e depois dos Jogos Olímpicos. No total, foram identificados doze eventos relacionados ao projeto. O quadro mais amplo de gerenciamento deste projeto é apoiado por uma breve descrição da governança do projeto Rio 2016. Por fim, o trabalho conclui com o apelo de ampliar a pesquisa académica sobre a complexidade dos Jogos Olímpicos, pois há uma falta de capacidade explicativa para uma avaliação dos principais empreendimentos conceituais deste megaprojeto. Isto devido ao motivo de os eventos gerenciados pelos atores terem acabado por ser explicados por quatro dimensões do megaprojeto: O impacto político, o impacto estético, o impacto económico e o impacto tecnológico

Talking about the 'rotten fruits' of Rio 2016:framing mega-event legacies

Legacy has become a watchword of hosting mega-events in recent years, used to justify massive spending and far-reaching urban transformations. However, academic studies of legacy outcomes suggest there is only limited evidence for the efficacy of using mega-events to deliver broader policy goals. The discourse of legacy promulgated by the International Olympic Committee promotes a fantastical vision of the possibilities created by mega-events while obfuscating critical analyses of legacy. This paper explores legacy talk among a wholly different group – activists who have protested against the Olympic Games, specifically in Rio de Janeiro – based on interviews conducted two years after the Games as part of a broader ethnographic study. The positive connotations of legacy, even among these Olympic critics, places a straitjacket on conversation, leading activists to discuss specific legacy projects, at the expense of highlighting the very real harms of mega-event development, such as evictions, gentrification and militarization. As such, there is a need to deepen understanding that legacy encompasses all that is left behind after mega-events, not only the positive impacts.</p

Olympic legacy and cultural tourism: Exploring the facets of Athens' Olympic heritage

This study examines the effects of the Olympic Games on Athens’ cultural tourism and the city’s potential to leverage the Olympic legacy in synergy with its rich heritage in order to enhance its tourism product during the post-Games period. In doing so, a qualitative and interpretive approach was employed. This includes a literature review on Athens’ 2004 Olympics to identify the sport facilities and regeneration projects, which constitute the Olympic legacy and heritage. Based on that, an empirical analysis was undertaken, by collecting official documents about the 2004 Olympics, and conducting five semi-structured interviews with tourism/administrative officials. The findings indicate that the Olympiad contributed significantly to Athens’ built and human heritage, revealing the dimensions of new venues/facilities, infrastructure, transportation and aesthetic image of the city, and human capital enhancement. Hence, the Games affected to the multifaceted representation and reconstruction of the city’s identity and cultural heritage. However, the potential afforded from the post-Olympic Athens remains unrealised due to lack of strategic planning/management. The study concludes that there is a need to develop cross-leveraging synergies between the Olympic legacy and cultural tourism for the host city. Finally, a strategic planning framework for leveraging post-Games Olympic tourism is suggested in order to maximise the benefits of Olympic legacy and heritage in a host city’s tourism development

Assessing the Olympics: Preliminary Economic Analysis of a Boston 2024 Games Impacts, Opportunities and Risks

The possibility of hosting the Summer Games is sparking significant debate in our community about the potential benefits, costs, and risks associated with hosting the Olympics. With these debates in mind, the Boston Foundation (TBF) commissioned the Economic and Public Policy Research group (EPPR) at the UMass Donahue Institute (UMDI) to perform a detailed economic impact assessment of Boston's proposed 2024 Olympic bid. While the Boston 2024 proposal is a working document and should be thought of as a "proof of concept" rather than a concrete plan, there are still several components of the proposal that can be evaluated at this time. The following report contributes to the public discourse by providing a preliminary assessment of the quantitative short-term economic impacts of hosting the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Boston. In addition, this report highlights several of the potential opportunities, challenges, and risks associated with hosting the Olympic Games that are difficult to quantifiably measure at this time, but require further attention as the Olympic bid evolves over the next couple of years

The social responsibility of the Olympic Games: Olympic women.

This paper will review the history of women’s involvement in the Olympic Games, how gender is socially (re)constructed through these events, current issues facing women who compete at the Olympic/Paralympic level, and what social responsibility the Olympic movement might assume to improve the experiences of Olympic women in the futurePeer reviewe

Sports Performance and Shaping International Image of a China: Towards Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

China is a country that has been using sport in order to reach political goals for many years. Lately such political exploitation of sport is directed at shaping the desirable international image of this country. This is done most of all through hosting sports events, but also through sports victories. The last aspect is the subject of this research. The aim of the article is therefore to investigate the issue of utilization of performance in international sport in order to enhance international image of a China. The research presented in the article is a case study concerning sport as a tool of nation-branding. Its main objective is to analyse motivation of China’s decision-makers to use sports performance in order to enhance the country’s international perception, and to observe how this goals is executed. The main hypothesis to be tested states that China perceives sports performance as an important tool of enhancing its international image.Narodowe Centrum Nauki, projekt nr 2015/19/D/HS5/00513

Sports mega-events – three sites of contemporary political contestation

This article discusses the contemporary politics of sports mega-events, involving the Olympic Games and Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Men’s Football World Cup Finals as well as other lower ‘order’ sports megas, taking two main forms: the promotional and the protest. There is a politics in, and a politics of, sports mega-events. The former focuses on the internal politics of the organizing bodies, such as the International Olympic Committee and FIFA. This form of politics has been written about elsewhere, and hence, there is no detailed discussion in this article about it. Instead this article offers a brief discussion of the range and number of sports mega-events since 2000, an assessment of the contemporary politics of sports mega-events, a focus on three main sites of political contestation – rights, legacy and labour, and finally, it offers conclusions about research into the politics of sports mega-events