Case Study: Populous achieves seamless global sports-event delivery with Smartsheet

Populous builds global sports events with Smartsheet at the foundation

Populous, a global sports architecture firm that designs and delivers major events like the Final Four and the Olympic Games, struggled with coordinating hundreds of partners, tight budgets and unique, rapidly assembled teams while relying on paper and sprawling spreadsheets. They needed a simple, flexible tool to standardize delivery processes, manage tasks and deadlines, and make the right information available to the right vendors across cities and time zones.

By adopting Smartsheet, Populous implemented tailored templates and subsidiary sheets that act as a single source of truth, enable quick partner onboarding, automated alerts and mobile access, and keep licensing costs predictable. The outcome was faster event setup, improved change-order and budget control with real-time logs, fewer closeout surprises, and new client engagements as customers adopted Smartsheet for their own operations.

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Marc Klein

Senior Associate