CASE STUDY

Optimize Media Supply Chain Across All Areas of a Global Pay Television Organization – Studio, Linear, Digital & News

AT A GLANCE

Challenges

  • Siloed and duplicative media supply chains

  • Need for common workflow, media management, metadata and governance

  • Lack of supply chain automation

  • Many, often aging, systems and use of unstructured information

Benefits

  • Detailed understanding of overall enterprise current state

  • Enterprise-level media/metadata management approach

  • Streamlined next generation workflow

  • Evolving shared action plan for global media supply chain optimization

Objectives

  • Investigate how enterprise-level media/metadata management and fulfillment would benefit the company

  • Articulate a future state to optimize the media supply chain across the organization worldwide

Solutions

  • Captured existing capabilities across the company’s existing media supply chains globally, including enabling workflows and systems for monetization, media/metadata management and fulfillment

  • Developed strategic rationale for global, enterprise-level media and metadata management based on internal (strategic business objectives) and external (market, competition, technology considerations) drivers

  • Defined future state media/metadata management approach, operational workflow, underlying technology and organizational considerations to streamline, unify and optimize the organization’s global media supply chain

Benefits

  • Understanding of the global organization’s existing capabilities, technology and underlying media supply chains

  • Roles-based view of current and future states identifying needed roles in organization to support future state

  • Identified change management considerations to evolve roles and global organizational structure to support future state

  • Activity-based cost and ROI estimation models informing go/no-go and timing decisions about roadmap project investments and operational KPI development

  • Shared, multi-year roadmap/action plan describing inter-related projects and programs to evolve workflows, systems and roles to achieve an optimized global media supply chain