Rugby World Cup 2011 — the game of risk management
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As published in Risk Management Today Issue 15-16 December 2011.
Samantha Ford ADARNA CONSULTING
The management of large-scale sporting and conference events presents evolving subsets of risk. As events become bigger, managing these risks becomes more complex. The interdependencies between stakeholders mean that an issue affecting one can have an impact onothers or, indeed, the success or reputation of the larger event. The 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand provides a number of examples of this. Overall, it was an incredibly successful event, but it was not without some noteworthy issues that threatened the reputations of organisers, sponsors, hosts, teams and the game itself.