Essays Tagged: "Millennium Commission"

Millennium Dome

2. The financial performance of the New Millennium Experience Company (NMEC) has not matched the expectations of the Company, the Millennium ... ertain what went wrong and why. We have also examined what has gone right and the benefits that the Millennium Dome and other capital projects are bringing and may bring in future.Timetables and admin ... ent of projects should be completed during the year 2000.[53] To date, 72 projects have opened. The Millennium Commission expects that about 150 projects will have opened by the end of this year, whic ...

(2 pages) 29 0 3.0 May/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The Dome 2000

e appear to have been no systematic endeavours to revise the visitor number forecasts. NMEC and the Millennium Commission put their trust in opinion poll evidence and do not appear to have reconsidere ... oper regard to the immense financial implications those changes entailed. It appears that NMEC, the Millennium Commission and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport accepted the over-optimistic o ...

(3 pages) 18 0 2.3 May/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

The Millennium Dome

an63. We explored NMEC's contingency plans for cost overruns or reduced revenues in our Report, The Millennium Dome. Mr Mandelson told us that "there would not be an overall cost overrun", and that th ... t approach proved to be disastrous when the press coverage became largely hostile.RecommendationThe Millennium Commission said that it encouraged "projects to learn from one another".[62] The Magna pr ...

(8 pages) 47 0 1.0 May/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers