Case Study: Risk Mitigation
2006 Winter Olympic Games, Torino, Italy

Challenge
To aid the 2006 Torino Winter Olympic Games Organizing Committee and all its statutory agency partners, identify and mitigate all operational risks and challenges they would be facing in the 6 months prior to delivery.

Introduction
The Rhiannon Group was brought in to work as a part of the Risk Management and Senior Games Project Management group, to implement risk identification projects within all internal Committee departments. Once we had identified the levels of risks throughout the internal organization, we were charged we helping the statutory agencies with games responsibilities understand and evaluate their exposure to risks, while educating them on what to expect during operations. Once we had completed this in-depth assessment, we compiled our findings and recommendations for the International Olympic Committee, to enable the final games preparations process to begin

Stakeholders
International Olympic Committee, TOROC, City of Torino, Province of Piedmont, GTT (Torino transport department), National and Local law enforcement agencies, Italian Department of the Interior, Affected regional city councils

Strategy/Process
Creating internal departmental risk audits and evaluations, we were automatically able to eliminate considerable operational risk from the Committees overall plan. Designing a classification system upon completion, we initiated table tops and round table discussions sessions to further examine areas for concern during operations, and to begin the education process of how to counteract adverse situations at all levels. Purpose specific training modules were then implemented to address the physical readiness of dealing with situations, creating confidence and awareness amongst all games venues personnel. Once these risk identification training modules had been completed, we created a specific overall Games Command Control and Communication plan for the local Organizing Committee and International Olympic Committee. An integration strategy to align the considerable resources being offered to the Committee by their local and regional statutory agencies

Result/Conclusion
By undertaking the considerable amount of risk evaluation and mitigation exercises it enabled all affected games stakeholders to understand and prepare for the challenges for the Winter Games. The project also provided the Committee something it was lacking i.e. clarity of operations and various agency accountability. The process provided the IOC invaluable of what stage overall planning was at, and where most effort would be needed moving forward. The Winter Olympic Games were widely acclaimed as a huge turning point for the magnitude of Olympic operations, as well as a huge milestone in the 2000 year history of the City of Torino.
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