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For your localization efforts to succeed, you need a team that’s in sync with not only your department goals, but also the overall organization’s goals. You need your localization team to work effectively with other departments to keep your localization efforts moving forward. You want to see in-country teams succeed, and you must ensure that partnerships with external agencies run smoothly. Use the research below to develop your team, reach company goals, and manage staff and projects effectively.
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Our research into continuous localization has revealed more companies adopting the “Spotify Model” to organize their development teams – and in some cases all business functions. Since Spotify has made news headlines, we thought localization teams should be on the lookout for the model to be coming their way.
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How many people should you hire for your localization team? Do you need to employ anyone at all? What function should the team report into? Is it time to set up a center of excellence for globalization? This brief addresses these questions by presenting 16 sample organizational (org) charts for translation and localization teams at various levels of localization maturity. We also provide advice on how to avoid making typical staffing mistakes at each level.
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The relationship between business buyers – for example, marketing managers who want to create campaigns that are effective around the world, their localization teams and a company’s global procurement team - is not always an easy one. Often purchasing experts are not partnered with to full advantage. Use this report to better understand the role of the sourcing team, strengthen the partnership, and understand where these specialists can help – it is not all RFPs.
When outsourcing work to several language service providers, firms large and small face a variety of problems that are not always apparent until they become so challenging that they are not easy to fix. From brand control to process efficiency, buyers of language services must closely manage the multi-vendor approach to reap the intended benefits. This report provides best practices and guidance for supporting a global brand with multiple suppliers.
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