Monday, February 3, 2014

Logistics of Chinese New Year Celebration

Sydney resides one of the largest  Chinese populations outside Asia, so no surprise to see how beautiful the Chinese New Year can be celebrated here. The festival is for two weeks with different programs everyday including outdoor markets, exhibitions, feasts, dragon boat race, film festival and so forth. One of the highlights is the Twilight Parade with thousands of attendants and performers.
 
Yesterday was the time for Chinese New Year Twilight Parade in Sydney, an amazing event to share the happiness of a great nation. Watching beautiful decorations, the giant Trojan horse, colourful carousel, and wonderful performances. With all those amazed people around us, I was thinking of the preparation, planning and logistics of this huge event. Where and how all those performers were organized? How the required resources were provided at the time when each group was supposed to join the parade? What if something goes wrong? Any contingency plan for unexpected problems? And it seems in addition to all the hard works of design, procurement, production and transportation, an interesting risk analysis had been performed. To me it was very interesting to read this document, with the potential risk scenarios, their impacts, evaluations and response strategies.

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