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Fast Company, August, 2004 by Scott Kirsner
Claude Philipps is not a happy man.
He's standing in the middle of a sea of cubicles at the headquarters of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Organising Committee, the group responsible for putting on the Summer Olympics this month.
There are 85 days left until the games begin. Philipps is the guy whose job it is to ensure that the entire technology infrastructure for the Athens Olympics is in place before then. He has just learned that a key network connection from the primary data center to the backup center elsewhere in Athens hasn't been set up, and he's steamed. He's speaking English, but it might as well be Greek for all the acronyms. "Look, let's talk to ATHOC" -- that's the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Organising Committee -- "or let's talk to the IOC" -- that...
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