2. Company Background
Affinion Group enhances the value of its partners’ customer relationships by
developing and marketing loyalty solutions. Leveraging its expertise in customer
engagement, product development and targeted marketing, Affinion provides
programs in subscription-based lifestyle services, personal protection, insurance
and other areas to help generate increased customer loyalty and significant
incremental revenue for more its 5,500 marketing partners worldwide.
Affinion Group has more than 35 years experience and revenues of more than
$1.3 billion.
Key accomplishments include:
160 million consumers worldwide
Over 800 million direct marketing pieces mailed annually
87,000 marketing campaigns conducted over the last decade
80 million telemarketing contacts annually
Multiple industry experience including financial, retail, travel, entertainment, e-
commerce and direct response TV
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3. The Opportunity
Background
The integration of multiple businesses through mergers and
integrations left Affinion Group with multiple business units
using a variety of different PMO tools and processes
Our strategy implemented a standard set of processes and tools
in one business unit first, Affinion Loyalty Group
Opportunity – Goal & Objective
Improve visibility on a global basis by implementing
standardized dashboards and reporting tools
Centralize and standardize PMO processes and tools across
multiple business units
Enforcing core set of Project, Resource, and Financial
performance metrics and associated dashboards and reports
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4. PMO Cross Business Unit Road Map
Phase 1 – Demand Management
Activation of project proposal and planning processes within
PPM
Phase 2 - Resource, Project & Program Management
Resource capacity, availability, planning and work assignment
processes within solution
Project management processes aligned with Systems Delivery
Methodology (SDM) within solution
Resource time expenditure processes within solution
Interface with Lawson – Financial Reporting Solution
Phase 3 - Financial Management
Activation of standard method of project, program and
portfolio budgeting and financial reporting in solution
Interfaces/Integrations
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6. Phase I - Opportunities
Centralize and Standardize PMO / PPM Solutions across BU’s
ResultsPositive PPM Rapid Start Implementation
Standardize PMO / project proposal lifecycle across all
business units
Implement PPM across all business units
Standardized Proposal prioritization and approval
Established standard set of prioritization criteria across
business units
Consistent and repeatable proposal development and
approval process
Cross business unit visibility
Portfolio visibility of project proposals across business
units
Usage of initial set of role-based dashboards
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7. Phase I Solution Overview: Portfolio Management
Performance Measurement & Reporting
Portfolio Management
Investment Review Committee
Review Approve projects
prioritized based on benefits
capital and and budget and
expense resource
proposalsPMO Office
availability
Present Analyze and rank
prioritized project proposals by value
proposals and risk ratings
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8. Phase I - Benefits
Centralize and Standardize PMO / PPM Solutions across BU’s
Improve speed to market delivery of projects and programs
Standardization and streamlining of project and portfolio management
processes
Enhanced alignment of projects and programs with strategic initiatives
Increased visibility of all projects across the Enterprise Portfolio, which
leads to identification of synergistic opportunities as well as cross
project interdependencies
Single source of project and portfolio information across the
Enterprise associated with the implementation HP PPM across all
business units
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9. Phase II – Opportunities
1. Leverage existing configuration settings from Loyalty for Project,
Program and Portfolio Management
2. Enterprise resource staffing capability
3. Enterprise project information repository
4. Retirement of E-Time
5. Migration from spreadsheet based controls and processes
6. Self Service Portfolio, Program and/or Project reporting capabilities
7. Leverage existing Loyalty training and reference documentation
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11. Phase II Solution Overview: Project & Time Management
Performance Measurement Reporting
Project Management
Business Area / Resource Pool Managers
Manage resource
Manage project
capacity and project
escalations as needed
allocations
Program / Project Mgr
Manage project controls
Manage project plans
(i.e. issues, risks, change
and tasks
requests)
Manage project Manage resource
budgets – labor and requests and assigned
non labor resources
Track and report time on project tasks and
requests
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12. Phase II - Benefits
1. Resource availability, capacity and what-if capability provides ‘missing link’ in
Annual / Quarterly / Monthly Project planning and Steering Committee prioritization.
Alignment of IT organization with business
2. Intrinsic/automated link between Projects, Resources and Time for financial tracking
and reporting
Strong resource and financial control within Time Management down to the
Project task level
3. Real-time access to enterprise wide program and project performance metrics
4. Elimination of manual forms and process steps within the Project Management will:
Improve timely submission of required documents
Enable Project Managers to focus more of their time collaborating with their
business counterparts on programs and strategic planning not administrative
updates
Meet Project Manager needs for automated Project, Resource and Time
Management tools
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13. Phase II – Benefits Continued
5. More rapid identification of poorly performing and under-performing projects
Automated calculation of Schedule Performance Index
Automated calculation of Cost Performance Index
6. Consistent project portfolio evaluation criteria based on standard, global
processes
7. Centralized repository for all project administration will provide a single
point of access to all requests, projects and project information.
8. Provides Program Manager visibility to current, proposed and completed
projects within one view.
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16. Project & Portfolio Management Road Map
Phase III
Stabilization Enhanced Portfolio & Project Mgt
Phase II Period Enhanced Dashboard Reporting
Stabilization PPM Integrations
Program Management
Phase 1 Period Baselines &
Issue & Change Mgt Organizational
Forms & Workflows Change &
Portfolio Management
Baselines & Resource Management Adoption
Project Management Organization
Time Management
Proposal, & Project al Change &
Forms & Workflows Adoption PPM Interfaces
Dashboard Reporting Enhanced Dashboard
Reporting
Org. Change Initiatives – Methods, Processes, Tools, Metrics, Comm., Training.
Initial
PPM Roll-out across all
PPM
Business Units
BU
PPM Rapid Start Approximately To Be
8 months To Be Determined
6 to 12 weeks 16 months Determined
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17. PPM Implementation Approach
• Project & Portfolio Management Rapid Start Approach
ResultsPositive
• Implementation Toolkit / Questionnaires
PPM Rapid Start • Proposal & Project Templates (Form / Workflow)
Solutions • End User Training Materials
PPM • Simple best practice solutions
Implementation • Rapid Start implementation approach
Best Practices • Senior leadership involvement and sponsorship
• Organizational Change Program
Organizational
• Process and product training courses and training materials
Change
• Why change communications, FAQ’s, & Quick Reference Cards
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18. Lessons Learned / Best Practices
Senior Management directive to keep uniform PPM processes across BU’s.
Align the initial Business Unit PPM solution to leverage initial investments
and establish common project lifecycle processes
Get Project Managers on-board with the processes and solution – which was
key for adoption
Keep the solution simple
Regular communications across business units
Ongoing weekly Project Team Led Question and Answer sessions
Extensive Project Team Led 8 week Training Program to facilitate adoption
of processes and PPM
Weekly Resource and Time Management Sessions
Semi-Weekly Project Management Sessions
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19. Contact Information
Patrick Figliola, PMP, PMO Director,
Affinion Group
Phone: 203 956 8779
Email: pfigliola@affiniongroup.com
Jon Furner, President, ResultsPositive
Phone: 480 – 415 – 6419
Email: jfurner@resultspositive.com
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