Having received the latest news from the “Kulturmanagement network“, I’m all for the “M” in SCM to be changed to “music”. As the Dec issue of this newsletter points out, no cultural event exists without logistics 
In fact, no event does, as Nina Modig‘s series of publications on event logistics will highlight. One of the issues we all remember from Nofoma 2007 and LRN 2007 was the food – or lack of it
But back to cultural administration*, one of the most interesting insights was to see its very definition looking at processes (in terms of material flows, locational questions…) rather than events, which the authors linked to a call for including logistics in the toolbox for cultural administrators. New are thus a bachelors, and a masters programme in “cultural engineering” in Magdeburg that combines cultural administration and knowledge management with indeed, logistics.
Gyöngyi
* Kulturmanagement stands for “cultural administration”; one of these lovely concepts that is so difficult to translate to other languages. Just see our debate on SCM in different languages…
Ho ho ho!
The lunch at Nofoma was delivered in two batches. The delay had a great effect on the socialisation of the participants; people were discussing more than ever the relevance of our discipline, and the gap between theory and practice (in favour of theory that particular day).
The supplies at Thingvellir must be considered from a ‘holistic’ perspective; the food was good (I’m talking quality, not quantity
), but more importantly, the supply of song-water was definately an order-winner that evening.
The dinner at LRN was even better. While booked for the wrong day, the service recovery was perfect, getting pizza from Domino’s
They had to proof the point of risk, disruptions, agility and resilience, right?
Comparing the 2007 LRN and -Nofoma implies an interesting learning; the effective de-coupling point is perhaps the menue at Domino’s?
But what ‘practical’ exercise may we expect at Nofoma 2008?