Over the years, the nature of the event enables firms to learn through experience and to innovate such as come up with new temporary dining structures and reconfigured container kitchens, providing fresh dining concepts for race patrons, therefore, it's a reflection of newer, better, fresher.

Service companies grew better at collaborating with each other, and service providers continue to reinvent and refine their processes to be more efficient and effective, from 12 days of road closure for the first race in 2008, the process was halved to just six days, from circuit set-up to ticketing and security services, things move like clockwise which is a very telling feature of organisations as machines.

I'd rather the $2,000 go to my coach. The bulk of public funding I received to train for the SEA Games came from the SSI (Singapore Sports Institute), not SA.

The article focuses on Rui Yong (individual) and a little on the local athletics fraternity (small groups within the organisation). 

The SA president insisted that SA has been funding its athletes (characteristics of work environment). 

One other grouse (unhappiness similar to job satisfaction) is the infighting that plagued the local athletics fraternity over the past year.
Organisational behaviour is observed in this article.

On August 26, it features one of the biggest blockbuster boxing match between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather Jr. To hype that fight, the two did a few news conferences together, and the trash talk that was exchanged attracted the attention of Dana White, the president of the UFC and Mayweather’s promotions head, Leonard Ellerbe. Both representatives were confident a deal was closing that they paved the way for McGregor to obtain a boxing license for the boxing match. 

This is an example of organisation as brains. It was a good decision that was made by the 2 different organisation to capitalise on the feud between the 2 superstars to generate revenue and publicity for the upcoming fight. It was also a joint effort from the 2 organisations to ensure that an MMA fighter would receive a boxing license to be in ring with a boxer.

Organizations are information systems in which they make use of information (feud between the 2) obtained and translate it into money making and publicity opportunities. 

Hong Kong football supporters jeered China's national anthem on Tuesday (Oct 10) as tensions between sections of the city's population and the mainland Chinese authorities continue to simmer. This was not the first time the jeering has occurred as the HKFA has previously been fined by FIFA, football's world governing body, over the booing of China's national anthem.

This is seen as an organisation as culture as there was a sense of shared values among the HK football supporters in HKFA not only towards the game but towards China’s role in running the city since it took over following the handover of sovereignty from Britain in 1997. 

It illustrates the unhappiness and displeasure of the HK people with China ruling that there is a sense of strong culture amongst their people. Even after the HKFA has previously been fined by FIFA, football's world governing body, over the booing of China's national anthem, this does not stop the people of HK from their jeering in their most recent match.

http://www.straitstimes.com/sport/officials-say-track-body-must-sort-out-disputes
Article touched on the the recent disagreements between the leadership level of Singapore Athletics (SA) and how it is affecting the disbursement of funds to athletes in the upcoming season.

The disagreements within SA displays traits of a sporting organisation as a political system with each stakeholders focused on varying interest - individuals (in leadership roles, coaches and athletes) are grouped together to realise personal ambitions/directions; differing camps amongst leadership (your side vs mine), technical directions (attending of training camp at venue x or venue y), when and how will athletes receive the next subsidy, etc.

If administrators at the highest level are unable to communicate and come to a common point in which they can work together in the interest of the athletes, it is ultimately the athletes that are affected and the sport that will suffer.

The All Blacks have always been a very dominating rugby team in the world. An Australian columnist commented that the All Blacks dominance threatens world rugby. The columnist argued that the success of the All Blacks might be wonderful for New Zealand, but questioned whether it is positive for test rugby and the health of the game in other countries. The New Zealanders have lost only two games since winning the 2015 World Cup.

The All Blacks can be viewed as an Organisation as a culture. Not only does everyone in the team has shared values, the organisation managed to mobilised the country together to share the same value as the team. The Haka performed at the start of each match connects the team to the Maori roots of the country. The culture of the All Blacks has evolved to one of winning, and the national expectations of them are to win every match. The pressure is high, but the players are performing to their expectations. According to the correspondent, the All Blacks could turn ‘Rugby into a big Yawn’, but sustaining a winning culture like that takes a lot of effort, and the All Blacks are putting in the effort to keep their, and the nations, culture and expectations.

Correlation
The organisational structure in Redbull is flat. Specialists are employed to perform different function. http://www.redbullracing.com/team Centralisation on employment of drivers seem to fall on the Team principal. The knowledge and experience, purpose and goal of Redbull, and the significance of the decision seems to influence the decision for employment.
 
Takeaway
There are many advantages of centralisation to decentralisation. However, to ensure effectiveness and efficiency in an  organisation, it depends on the characteristics of the employees and the environment. Centralisation is not necessary beneficial all the time although it may be efficient to a certain extent.

 Professional sports teams owning an esports group has made its way to Australia as the Adelaide Football Club acquired Sydney-based Legacy eSports 

The Singapore Silat Federation (Persisi) unveiled a four-pillar plan to grow the sport as it works towards its ultimate goal of having a Singaporean compete in pencak silat at the Olympics. 

The first pillar is to groom non-Malay athletes for the national team and recruit non-Malay staff in its management to make the sport more inclusive.

The second pillar is to develop a national syllabus and grading system so that there is a standardized training programme nationwide. 

The third pillar is to increase participation and eventually to grow the national training squad members.

The forth pillar is to focus on fund-raising efforts to beef up its reserve. 

The four-pillar plan was shared by Persisi chief executive officer Shiek Alau’ddin. The four pillars describe the direction of the NSA and communicate to the public what the organization stands for. 

The official goal is to grow the sport and have a Singaporean to compete in pencak silat at the Olympics in 2032. This is a long-term goal which will take 15 years from now to achieve. The pillars describe the operative goals and what the organization is trying to do to achieve the official goal.

Mr. Alau’ddin also emphasized on the importance of having the different stakeholders to work together. 

The National Youth Sports Institute (NYSI) organised the Youth Athlete Development Conference recently on 3 November 2017. The Performance Pathways team from the English Institute of Sport shared their success stories with the identification of athletes. The team had run National athlete recruitment campaigns, and assessed over 10,000 athletes. Other recruitment, the Performance Pathways team also conducts detailed athlete profiling.  
 
 Dr. Esther Chia, who is the head of the NYSI Head of Talent Identification and Development felt that there are no clear performance pathways for the Singaporean athletes. There are many stakeholders such as the SSI, NSA, Sports School, parents and schools in the Singapore sports ecosystem and every stakeholder has a different understanding of what success is and how to get there.

A strategic alliance should be formed by the various stakeholders in the Singapore sports ecosystem. Every stakeholder plays an important role in the identification and grooming of athletes and every stakeholder has the knowledge and expertise to contribute. 

By forming the alliance, the stakeholders could achieve economies of scale (training venues, equipment, coaches). There will be in increase in the opportunity for organizational learning and technological exchanges. 

Personally, I agree with Dr. Esther Chia that there are many definitions of success in sports and the stakeholders seem to be working on their own; even if there are some forms of collaboration, the results are not evident. 

Singapore’s population is small and there is a limited pool of talented athletes. We will need to work on the athlete profiling systems to better identify and groom the athletes. 

Probably we could start with football and eventually roll out the system to the other sports. 

The Singapore national football team are winless for more than a year after yesterday evening's 0-3 defeat by Bahrain in an Asian Cup Goup E qualifier at the National Stadium.

One area that was highlighted was the lack of leadership and discipline among the players.

The lack of discipline was sorely highlighted in a separate news reporting on the mass brawl that happened during the National Football League between the Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association (Safsa) and Yishun Sentek Mariners on Sunday night (Nov 12) at the Jalan Besar Stadium.

Another area to note would be the lack of a clear goal. Is the organisation fielding younger players for exposure so as to secure the long term goal? or is there another goals that FAS is trying to attain? if so, what are the goals?

Takeaway:
For a sport organisation to be effective, there must be a clear goal to work toward to. No goals or mission statement can be found anywhere on the FAS website. This is worrying as if there is no clear goal for the organisation, there are essentially nothing for them to attain, and no way to evaluate their effectiveness.

The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) announced comprehensive changes to the local youth development plans to rejuvenate the ailing national team. The proposed changes will focus on efforts to include more schools to take up football as a co-curricular activity (CCA), differentiation across age groups, and mandating a quota of under-23 players for the S-League’s six local clubs. 

Correlation

This could be used as a measure of organisational effectiveness of the FAS in terms of producing results as an organisation. 

Takeaway

Focusing on talent development in the youth is crucial in ensuring a strong National Team where players’ life cycles are important factors to a team’s performance. A commitment to young players will help to ensure that the younger players were developing and would meet the standards that the older player had set. The new game format for the younger players will focus on the skill development of the players as an individual and creating a better learning environment.  

The launch of the One Team Singapore Fund (OTSF) serves as additional funding for elite sports in Singapore. Hopes are that the matching OTSF grant will prompt corporate sectors and the public to contribute to the success of national athletes. Money will contribute towards high performance in areas like competition opportunities and coaching development. 

Correlation 
This could be an example of strategic alliance whereby the NSA works together with the government to increase funding for sport organisations in Singapore

Takeaway

The OTSF serves as a form of encouragement to local athletes who train hard and make personal sacrifices to excel in their respective sports. Funding is always a pertinent factor when it comes to wanting to raise the standard of any sport in Singapore.