{"id":254,"date":"2018-03-18T11:51:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T11:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frankrussell.ca\/dev\/?p=254"},"modified":"2018-04-29T22:56:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T22:56:02","slug":"program-scaling-to-1-billion-electronic-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frankrussell.ca\/dev\/2018\/03\/18\/program-scaling-to-1-billion-electronic-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Program: Scaling to $1 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"MsoTableGrid\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; border: none;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 63.8pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"85\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: gray;\">Client:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 408.15pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\" colspan=\"3\" valign=\"top\" width=\"544\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\">Developer and publisher of video games<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 63.8pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"85\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: gray;\">Employees:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 30.9pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"95\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;\" align=\"right\">8,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 259.6pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"346\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\">\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 77.65pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"104\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Put in place the systems and processes to support the studio\u2019s growth to 1,000 employees and revenue of $1Billion.<\/li>\n<li>Projects\n<ul>\n<li>Accounting (Oracle Financials)<\/li>\n<li>Budgeting (Oracle Financial Analyzer)<\/li>\n<li>Human Resources (PeopleSoft)<\/li>\n<li>Payroll (ADP)<\/li>\n<li>Asset Management (Wisetrack)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The program goals were achieved through:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Close working relationship with stakeholders including senior executives.<\/li>\n<li>Establishing common language for terms across departments.<\/li>\n<li>Integrating all systems to eliminate redundancy and ensure data integrity.<\/li>\n<li>Re-engineering processes to optimize efficiencies across departments.<\/li>\n<li>Successful management of cross-functional team and external consultants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Key accomplishments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Efficiency gains from streamlined processes and an integrated application architecture succeeded in reducing the monthly close cycle by 2 days.<\/li>\n<li>Re-engineered on-boarding process for new hires resulting in greatly improved data integrity through elimination of redundant data entry across several departments.<\/li>\n<li>Managers had on-demand, up-to-date, reliable view of key performance measures, including headcount and budget performance, for the first time.<\/li>\n<li>Studio consolidation and relocation of three offices to a new building resulted in no reported losses of key assets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Client: Developer and publisher of video games Employees: 8,000 Put in place the systems and processes to support the studio\u2019s growth to 1,000 employees and revenue of $1Billion. 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