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Global event management system. Formulation of the problem

I am a systems analyst by training. For 5 years of studying in this specialty, I realized that system analysis is the art of solving problems in almost any human activity. No matter what you do - you create a startup, open a restaurant or organize a conference, if you initially study well the problems of the area in which you are going to make changes, then the efficiency of your activity will increase. Not for nothing, they say that the identified problem is 50% of the solution.



In this article I want to share one idea for a startup that emerged from life. The fact is that I like to attend all sorts of events: concerts, festivals, open airs, etc. And in the place where I live now, dozens of different events take place around me (a similar situation is common to all big cities). And the following problem periodically arises in front of me: how to keep abreast of all relevant and interesting events taking place around me. I began to study this topic and realized that at the moment there is no effective solution for searching for events on the Internet. Moreover, I also investigated the situation on the part of the organization of events, which also showed my problem areas. Under the cut, you can see the results of my little research.



Participation in the event



I did a little research on what solutions there are currently on the Internet in the field of event search.



I intentionally did not describe here the advantages and disadvantages of each service. But we can safely say that not one of the services described above does not provide a comprehensive solution in the field of event search. For example, the real problem that travelers may encounter when they look for events occurring during their journey. Imagine you are going to make a tour of three cities in Europe: Amsterdam, Berlin and Paris. And now try to find the events that are interesting for you, passing in these cities along the way, through any of the methods described above. A more difficult task ahead of you if you go to Japan, for example :-)

Here, a solution is needed that would comprehensively satisfy the need to search for events anywhere in the world. By this decision I mean an information system that has the following functions:



Event organization



The above is related to the events of the participants. And what happens on the part of the organizers? I began to study this topic and came across this. In the west, there is the term event management - a methodology for organizing all sorts of events: from weddings to international conferences. Naturally, it also has its own IT solutions:





It does not present all the proposed solutions that exist at the moment. But we have the same situation as with the search for events - there is no integral solution for the online organization of events. Each of the described services represents one of the aspects of event management, but not one of them does not provide all the tools at once. And they miss the main point: the most effective way to create a successful event is to involve potential participants in the process of creating it.

In social networks, this mechanism is partially implemented, but most likely it is more focused on event marketing, rather than on collective event creation.

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To understand what I mean, consider an example of organizing a hike.

Event Type: Private Event - Campaign

Time: coming weekend

Location: nearest mountains, forest

Number of participants: 5-6 people



What sequence of steps is necessary to go through in order to conduct such an event?



Scheme for the implementation of the event:



This scheme may well fit almost any type of event with small additions. For example, for major events such as concerts, festivals, conferences, we can single out the “Contracting Out” stage (Liacing), where all sorts of agreements are made with various organizations (room rental, equipment rental, contracts with performers, etc.)

Now imagine if this event creation process is implemented in an online environment. That is, it is such a system that consistently conducts the event organizer through all stages of creating the event described above, allowing people and resources to be involved in this process using different methods.



Conclusion



To summarize all of the above. If we combine both aspects of the event (participation and organization), then we get a global information system that performs two main functions:



In this article I described the problem that currently exists in the field of participation and organization of events in the Internet environment. I already have a solution that I want to describe in the next article. But first, I want to understand how relevant the problem is, maybe there are already some solutions that solve it, etc. In a word, I want to hear competent feedback.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/127500/

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