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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Is the London 2012 Olympics going to affect your business?





Let us engage in a conversation ...
London will be hosting the world’s largest sporting events in 2012. The games are already benefiting businesses. With billions of pounds of contracts to supply for the London 2012 games. The games promise to deliver a London changing experience. However, there will also be some challenges for business and individuals.
With 10.8 million tickets sold around 2 million Olympic visitors are expected to share the same resources as you and I struggle with daily. This will means millions of extra people will be using the transport system during the summer, a time that is already busy in the capital. Each individual or business will be affected by the games in different ways and to different extent and you will know best what is likely to work most effectively for you and your business.
The Game is likely to have an impact on the following areas of your business:
·         Travel to and from work for you and your employees
·         Travel for your customers or other visitors or family
·         Deliveries/ collections and other supplies
·         Business travel / personal travel
·         Internet security/ cyber attacks

Having established that you or your business will be affect, how are you preparing to manage these impacts?
·         Have you thought about  home working
·         Alternative routes to work
·         Have you thought about your supply chain management
·         How will your business deal with high absenteeism
·         How about flexi working times for employees
·         Using alternatives to meeting methods like teleconferencing, web conferencing
·         Have you thought about stock piling of non perishable goods
·         Have you asked your suppliers their plans for business during the games
Please share your thought below on how you/ your business is planning to reduce the challenges the LONDON 2012 games bring.



2 comments:

  1. It just occurred to me! What will happen to our broadband speed and telephony infrastructure? Will they be able to cope during the games? I remember how difficult it was to reach anyone on phone during the unfortunate 7/7 bombing.

    I do hope they have enough bandwidth capacity.

    Great article Artco!!!

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  2. Thank you Stephen. I can tell you that BT has invested in building additional capacity into the UK's communications network ahead of the anticipated demand for communications during the London 2012 Olympic Games. I will suggest that companies that are heavily reliant on telephony service research more about this service. It’s called BT smartnumber. With this service BT can help ensure calls can continue to reach the right person or team without any reliance upon your organisation's telephony service.
    Secondly, to avoid bandwidth capacity issues during the Games satellite broadband I will recommend for your organisation. Also in the market there are products that automatically identify primary link failure, re route data via your satellite provider and re- propagate network IP addresses instantaneously without interrupting services.
    I hope my recommendations are useful.

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