CASE STUDY

Managing Unification of Media Supply Chains and Broadcast Operations Across Pay Television Brands of a Global Media Company

AT A GLANCE

Challenges

  • Need for common, unified media supply chains and broadcast operations across organization

  • Stakeholders with diversity of objectives, business needs and perspectives

  • No established PMO framework to work across overall organization

Benefits

  • Implemented cross-organizational PMO structure and operating model

  • Alignment of workstream initiatives with overall organization unification strategy

  • Neutral, third-party assessment of and recommendations for unification workstreams

  • Consolidation onto leading, common media supply chain and broadcast operations technology solutions

Objectives

  • Define the project management office (PMO) framework and resources required to support unification needs and workstreams for the parent media organization broadly

  • Create and operate a PMO specifically to support unification of media supply chains and broadcast operations for operational efficiencies and cost savings across pay television brands of the global media company

Solutions

  • Led PMO supporting execution of workstreams for unification and consolidation of media supply chains and broadcast operations for pay television brands

  • Refined and aligned unification plans with stakeholders during project execution

  • Supported executive leadership in workstream tracking, progress assessment and reporting to senior leaders of parent organization

Benefits

  • Implemented PMO structure and operating model to support unification efforts across parent organization broadly

  • Effective execution of workstream initiatives for pay television subsidiaries against overall unification strategy for parent organization

  • Provisioning of neutral, third-party recommendations to senior leadership regarding capabilities, services and staffing within unification workstreams and across organizational groups

  • Migration of operations and engineering organizations onto leading, common technology solutions