Solution #3: Technology with a grain of salt
In their haste to incorporate new technology into the 2000 Democratic National Convention, organizers may have bitten off more than they could chew. Previous conventions were successfully run without such an extreme reliance and integration of telecommunications and Internet solutions into the basic structure of the convention. This suggests that the success of the convention is not a function of the available computing power of the organizers. Rather, the success will be based on successful management of the event.
With late pre-planning stages prior to the beginning of the convention, it seems evident that the Democrats emphasis on the convention as an e-convention was a poor idea. It placed increased management and logistical stress upon the individuals responsible for incorporating this technology and likely added very little real benefit to the overall success of the event. For the added cost and hassle of the technology integration, event quality was not substantially improved. The lesson here should be to streamline operations as much as possible, especially when working with a truncated timetable. The resources that were employed to make the convention more technologically savvy could have been better spent on fundraising or logistical issues.
Solution #4: Keep on schedule, even if it means cutting off a senator
This may be one of the most difficult aspects of management, because little can be done beforehand to prevent speakers from running over their time limit. This issue must be dealt with live in order to successfully mitigate the negative effects. In the case of the 2000 Democratic National Convention, the speakers were allowed to speak well over their allotted time limit and the result was that the convention proceedings were pushed out of prime time, threatening continued network coverage, crucial as the most important speakers are usually reserved for the end.
Several management solutions could be used to accommodate this issue. Extra time should be built into the convention, based on average amounts of time that prior conventions went over. Second, important and less important speakers should be...
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