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details and the deadlines for about
7,000 operations. Thus, the entire
period of initial planning was over in
late 1977.
A network for the Ticket Programme
project is shown in Fig. 1.
The operational control stage
started in December, 1977. The tasks
then were to ensure reliable supervision
of the operations covered by the
networks, to detect in time any deviations
from the plans and to prepare
proposals for the OCOG-80 top management
on how the delays could be
eliminated to complete all the arrangements
on time.
In the course of the operational
control and preparations for the
Games, the projects based on network
planning grew in number to 152. The
Department of Administration and Network
Planning based an updated master
activity network for the final stage
of preparations on those projects.
To improve the efficiency of the
OCOG-80 staff and to ensure better
monitoring of the plans to be implemented
by the ministries and government
agencies, as early as the
beginning of 1978, Minpribor developed
and put into operation a
subsystem called Control of Preparatory
Operations for the 1980 Olympics
Based on Network Models. It was
made part of the ACS Organising
Committee and was used to design
network models according to the operation
deadlines and to draw up
analytical documents and to outline
draft quarterly plans for the OCOG-80
departments.
The network planning system
proved to be very helpful for the
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organisation of the preparatory work
of OCOG-80 staff from 1977 till mid-
1980. Its main feature was a systems
approach to management, where the
process of preparations involving different
areas (construction, communications,
radio and television, data processing,
international relations, information,
personnel, sports, etc.) and
different departments was regarded as
one package of actions directed at a
common goal—the success of the
Games.
At the final stage of preparations,
when the main jobs had been completed,
the OCOG-80 departments
analysed in detail all the operations
still in progress for all the projects
and defined more specifically their
scopes and time required for completion.
Thereafter, i. e. from March,
1980, the departments switched over
to monthly planning. The assignments
were broken down by weeks and later
by days. Information on the execution
of plans and individual assignments
was presented to the top management
on a weekly basis. The department
chiefs gave accounts of each operation
under way to the President or
Vice-Presidents every week. Based on
those accounts and information supplied
by the Department of Administration
and Network Planning, the
OCOG-80 leaders took decisions in
time to tackle the problems that arose.
The system of planning and supervision
of execution adopted by the
OCOG-80 altered and refined at various
stages, has proved its value; it
played a crucial organising role in the
preparation and successful staging of
the Games of the XXII Olympiad.