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FY14 Goals

WPF Client Operations

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Overall Guiding Principles

• DBB & digital adoption• Customer Satisfaction• Asset Protection• Improved performance – cost, time, resource• Cross functional Organisation• Succession Planning• Teamwork• Winning Team


Personnel Strategies & Annual Routine

Personnel Strategies• Winning Team culture• Focus on role definition & time allocation• Focus on reducing staff attrition• Director’s “Better Work Day” project• Training: Dir Guild training programme, DECO/MP, Man U, DBB, SPEED• Personnel Development: Director’s Guild, Manager’s United, Management Journey, DISC,

MBTI, Emergenetics, Lominger• 360 feedback & goal review October 2013• Town Hall meeting October 2013

Annual Routine• May Screenings • FY15 Budgets • LOB business requirements – FY14 2H volume growth• MyCareer Performance Reviews, EComp


Organisational Design

Continue to develop cross functional, flexible teams to anticipate and proactively engage changing industry requirements

• Align Airline mastering & fulfillment• Grow Digital Supply Chain Management team by combining

AMMO MSG/GOLD teams to:– Focus on supply chain data management (eg: The Hub)– Implement & deploy automation to increase efficiency– Increase day to day governance of supply chain data operations – Support service groups & develop strategic solutions– Leverage & expand AMMO best practice



FY14 Cost Reduction OpportunitiesTarget: $7MM

•Further opportunity: Media Services audit

in $000's US$ US$

Description Timing Target Annual Saving FY14 Saving

Encode RFP Q1 3,000 3,000

Subtitle RFP Q1/2 20% 2,000 1,000

Audio Conform RFP Q1/2 20% 1,800 900

Editorial RFP Q1/2 15% 1,200 918

4x3 TV Mastering Q1 200 200

WGN America Synd Q2 154 130

Inwood tape stock 400 400

Queen Latifah Q2 70 70

8,824 6,618

AMMO Ongoing Operations• Title creation & metadata procurement• Metadata governance & compliance

LOB Initiatives• SPHE JVs & library acquisitions• SPT Networks

Technology Development (IT partnership)• MDM (GPMS 3.0)

• Data model• New functionality• Data integrity, governance, compliance, auditing• Pub/sub flexibility• BI / business analytics

• GPMS 2.5 roadmap management• GPMS reverse feeds and new data sources

Data Management• Content types and Alpha model development• Data procurement efficiency consolidation• Alpha-based servicing restrictions & requirements


The Hub

• Phase 1 (Q1 requirements, Q2 design & Q2-Q3 rollout): – Order management– Research management– Critical path management

• RPM integration• Hub -> DBB interface• Performance metrics• Level loading/capacity planning/forecasting


DBB Volume• FY14 volume drivers

– Intl retailer expansions (Amazon, Netflix, Xbox, Google)– Intl TV catalogue expansion – UV.CFF– Component based backfills

• Continue to convert access deals to direct delivery• Streamline order management• Order level loading/capacity planning

Process• Improve client side bandwidth (transition from ProRes deliveries)• Continue DBB process automation (metadata servicing, chaptering)• Re-assess Hybrid clients & eliminate manual workflows• Continue asset migration (including pro-active J2K encoding to support SPT migration)• Continue external process efficiencies (J2K logging/ingest, sub/audio conforms, client on-boarding)• Improve inventory control/governance & rejection management processes• Assess technology roadmap and impact on mat prep (J2K to Prores, localization assembly)• Expand interface to other SPE systems (Hub)• Continue to support internal SPE initiatives (Fingerprinting)


Discovery & deployment of new technology

• 4K– Leverage learnings from F1 Process – Design workflow: IMF, TV mastering, Trailer, EST/VOD

• Strategy– IMF/CPL.CFP/MCS.Sfera

Rate reduction Efficiency

• SPE Tech– Best Practice: Effective partnership with SP Tech SME

and Client Ops on 4K F1 Project WPF Client Operations FY14 Goals

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