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 [...]