For a corporate event to have an impact, you need to go deeper, starting with your ‘why’. This will be unique for every business, brand, and organization. Your why is your vision for your event – the overarching North Star that will guide every decision you make. This is your work, and it’s the most important work you’ll do. Once that’s established, you’ll need to ask yourself: Are you ready for it? Here’s the Showpiece Solutions checklist to help you find out.

For those of us in the management and consultancy world, Paris 2024 offers a playbook of both triumphs and lessons for operational planning at scale. I watched closely as the operations unfolded – tracking the big claims and subsequent wins but also the missteps and shortcomings along the way. Let’s take a look at three critical takeaways in operations management we can learn from the 2024 Olympics.