in-business YBL Program
Issue No. 49 - October/November 2009
Sheedy shows logistic ability
Brian Sheedy, 22, is the Event Operations Supervisor at Adelaide Showground, home of the Adelaide Event & Exhibition Centre.
Brian’s Young Business Leaders project drove a revolution in the Showground’s logistics. The great volume of activity at the vast site created a programming problem of equal proportions.
“I saw a gap between our operations and our event coordination,” Brian says. “There was an opportunity to develop within the company and make my mark.
“The brand new Goyder pavilion being constructed was effectively doubling our potential business, which posed a new problem in how to organise multiple events hosted at the same time in different venues.
“The influx of business opportunities seemed to be expanding faster than the systems we were currently using to manage them.”
Brian’s project developed business systems to deal with the workflow within a flexible structure that could accommodate diverse client needs and timings.<...



