Join CSA Research senior analyst Dr. Arle Lommel for a discussion of the “Reverse Swiss Cheese Model” – a way of thinking about the barriers and opportunities you create for international visitors to your website and business – and how it affects your business success. This approach lies behind the Global Customer Experience Calculator, a free tool that calculates the likelihood that individual customers in our “Can’t Read, Won’t Buy - B2C” panels will make it through the various stages ...

Enterprises aspire to a global customer experience, but often the individuals who are responsible for preparing the content to support this goal have little ability to assess its effectiveness when it is deployed. In many cases, localization groups think they are doing well because they manage the process and get good results from their vendors, yet their customers discover a far different reality, with mixed language (or unlocalized) content and graphics, links that go nowhere, and a generally ...

How do you use localization data to help steer and guide your enterprise in the best direction? Do you use it to predict outcomes or prescribe actions, or are you still trying to impress your executives with how much translation reuse you have achieved? CSA Research will share best practices as the outcome of a recent study of how enterprises at all levels of localization maturity use their data as business intelligence. Come and learn how to use dashboards for globalization success!

Our big theme for a 2013 report on Agile was that it had broken localization processes. Well, it’s déjà vu in 2021 because localization for cloud products, AI, and content types such as multimedia and AR/VR have now broken the Agile localization process. Time to regroup and make recommendations for how to proceed. Come hear the latest research on continuous localization at warp speed (based on 53 in-depth interviews!) with Rebecca Ray, Director and Senior Analyst at CSA Research.

To understand the pandemic's effect on the language industry, CSA Research began a series of quarterly surveys to CEOs of several LSPs in March 2020. We expanded regular primary research to LSPs in China, freelancers, language-technology vendors, and enterprises. Book your seat now and join us for a 30-minute interactive session, where we present data points to close out 2020 and identify what to expect in 2021.

In the months since COVID-19 began spreading across the globe, it has had a significant impact on the language service industry. The disruption caused by shelter-in-place orders has changed many of the existing market dynamics, resulting in the precipitation of trends tied to project management. Hélène Pielmeier will share insights and data on what PMs shouldn’t miss to stay at the top of their performance – regardless of the effects of the pandemic. She will cover the changing nature and spee...

Are you looking to implement AI into your CX process? Or have you started implementation only to realize the challenges? Despite the very real promise of cognitive and conversational agents to improve the customer experience and promote engagement between brands and their customers, the reality is that these advantages today are available to a relatively small percentage of the world’s population. Even large, tech-savvy enterprises struggle to find the data needed to develop AI-driven services ...

CSA Research conducted a large-scale survey of translators and interpreters in all corners of the world. To ensure comprehensiveness and a representative sample in this survey, we partnered with Proz.com and Translators without Borders. The thousands of answers we received enabled us to gauge the demographics, behaviors, attitudes, and challenges of linguists in this day and age. Thanks to the data, we were able to outline what the future of freelance and in-house linguists will look like and ho...

Countries and states are in a state of flux right now. Some are in the process of easing COVID-19-related restrictions while others are in the process of reintroducing them. Continued disruption to economic activity and planning has created challenging conditions for LSPs, particularly for interpreting-centric companies. As of July 2020, Chinese LSPs have had the most experience with both the pandemic and its aftermath. In this webinar, CSA Research will discuss what worked for language companie...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses to work-from-home overnight. Some were well-prepared and already allowed everyone in their language supply chain to access their translation management system (TMS) remotely, with no disruption to workflows; for others, it was more challenging, involving other IT tasks such as enabling virtual private network (VPN) access. We have spoken with enterprises at both ends of the spectrum - including those where use of a cloud application was previously problema...