Kotter’s Dual Operating Systems – Accelerating Change Execution

I’ve a read a lot of articles about implementing change, but nothing resonated with me quite so much as, Accelerate! by John P. Kotter in the Harvard Business Review (http://hbr.org/2012/11/accelerate/ar/1).
Throughout 2012 The Bodhi Tree Group has worked on projects defining strategic direction for major broadcasters and helped set out paths for implementation.  So many aspects [...]

Case Study: Business Architecture Review

Continuing our posts describing some of our recent projects, we look at an engagement where we helped a major broadcaster by recommending a plan for future content operations.  To do this, we reviewed our client’s current business architecture, worked with them to articulate a future vision, and recommended a plan to achieve their target content [...]

Mapping Out a Lean Enterprise MAM Architecture

The Bodhi Tree Group recently completed a major project to design an enterprise Media Asset Management (MAM) architecture for a leading Pay TV operator.  We’ve written a case study describing how our team worked with our client to deliver a vision of efficient file-based processes, a set of baseline operational metrics, and a future roadmap for [...]

Limitations of Lean in Broadcast Operations

In the past few blog posts we’ve been looking at Lean and how the philosophy of avoiding waste and good housekeeping might benefit Broadcast operations, specifically Media Asset Management (MAM) and file-based workflows.  In our final post in the series we look at some of the limitations of Lean in a broadcast content supply chain.
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What the Toyota Motor Company can teach Broadcast MAM – Good Housekeeping

In our last post on Broadcast MAM the key concepts of Lean operations were introduced and how Toyota’s 7 areas of waste (or inefficiencies) could be a useful checklist in the broadcast industry.  In this post we’ll look at how Lean could further benefit a Media Asset Management (MAM) and file-based workflows implementation by looking [...]

What the Toyota Motor Company can teach Broadcast MAM – Avoiding Waste

This is the first in a series of articles discussing how the Toyota Motor Company’s Lean philosophy can be applied to broadcast operations – specifically Media Asset Management (MAM) and file-based workflows.  In this post we introduce the Lean philosophy and look at how the 7 areas of waste are relevant to eliminating inefficiencies for [...]

Benchmarking Broadcast Operations

WYMIWYG – What You Measure Is What You Get
Source: John Bicheno, Six Sigma and the Quality Toolbox
Measuring performance is a critical task if an organization is serious about operational excellence in terms of improving quality, cost-base, and scalability.  The outputs of repeatable processes can be measured and compared not only against internal historical data but [...]

Effectively Managing Content Rights Across Multiple Platforms

The third installment of our series of blog posts on recent projects looks at a challenge facing many broadcasters in the non-linear world – effectively managing rights across multiple platforms.  The Bodhi Tree Group helped at large broadcaster and multi-platform service provider in APAC lay the groundwork for optimizing their rights operations to meet this [...]

Non-Linear Operations: Improving Rights, Scheduling, & Content Management

We continue our series of blog posts on past projects by looking at non-linear operations.  Recently, The Bodhi Tree Group worked with a European VOD service provider to improve their content operations in order to increase the amount of assets and metadata managed.  As with most non-linear service providers, our client faced some common challenges:

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Optimizing Digital Workflows for Promo Production

We are often asked how we enlighten our clients and help them improve their media operations.  Our projects are confidential in nature, however, over the next few weeks we will be giving you a taster of some of our recent work while respecting the privacy of our clients.
The Bodhi Tree Group recently helped a major [...]