Transfer of knowledge between events - true or false?!

Ellen and I were resently in Innsbruck to visit the organizing committee for the first Youth Olympic Winter Games. This is the first Winter Youth Olympic Games to be hosted. It will take place in January 13-22, 2012 for 1.058 athletes, age 14-18 from 70 nations that will perform in 7 sports and participate in the Culture and Education Programme.

We had the opportunity to share knowledge on how to do the Games operation, how to plan for it and not the least - how to train the entire staff in an efficient way. I am impressed by the way they with a small staff approach a complex event like this .....

We had also the opportunity to meet with a friend working with several events in the area, and what strikes me is that Austrians have something in common with Norwegians: The challenge to really take advantage of the knowhow of preparing for big events not reinventing it all again. And again. And again.

I really would love to see a true legacy where how-to-prepare-and-execute-an-event is documented in a way making it easy for the next one to "copy-paste" what's needed.

Who's ready to do that?