Showing posts with label Sonia Monahan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sonia Monahan. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

How to Minimize or Eliminate In-country Reviews Without Sacrificing Translation Quality

is being presented by Sonia Monahan, Executive Vice President of Quality Systems, with ForeignExchange Translations and airs on Wednesday, October, 12th, 2011. For more details, or to register please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

Every day another international labeling project is set up with its highest element of risk smack-dab at the end of the process. Quality validation is extremely important, especially in regulated industries, and validating translation quality is often accomplished by holding in-country reviews. This step typically consists of employees in local offices completing an assessment of the translation quality. The risks of this step are large, and include missed product launches due to delays in completing in-country reviews, and quality errors introduced by non-linguists during reviews.

In a recent survey on linguistic quality, respondents from the medical device industry, translation service providers, and professional language translators were asked, “What is your biggest translation challenge?”. The number-one answer was “in-country reviews”. The top answer to the question “How is quality measured?” was, ironically, “in-country review feedback”. But are in-country reviews an absolute necessity in order to achieve optimal translation quality? This audio conference examines ways to minimize or even remove the in-country review step from the translation cycle, while still adhering to regulatory and corporate requirements for translation validation.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Bridging the Linguistic Quality Gap: How to Measurably Improve Translation Quality

is being presented by Sonia Monahan, Executive Vice President of Quality Systems, with ForeignExchange Translations and airs Tuesday, June 1st, 2010. For more details or to register, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

A cornerstone of the translation industry is the quality of the linguistic work completed, yet linguistic quality remains nebulous for many end clients and translation suppliers. Linguistic quality means different things to different organizations and for different types of projects. With lack of measurable quality systems comes the need to add steps to the process to “ensure” quality. This perceived increase in quality (more people looking at the text) results in slower time-to-market and increased costs.

This audio conference looks at how to move from an uncertain quality outcome to measurable, predictable quality, while presenting an approach to defining, measuring and improving linguistic quality within an organization. The speaker also discusses how to utilize these measurements to meet the organization’s business objectives on a broader scale, spanning improvements in cost and time-to-market.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Bridging the Linguistic Quality Gap: How to Measurably Improve Translation Quality

A cornerstone of the translation industry is the quality of the linguistic work completed, yet linguistic quality remains nebulous for many end clients and translation suppliers. Linguistic quality means different things to different organizations and for different types of projects. With lack of measurable quality systems comes the need to add steps to the process to “ensure” quality. This perceived increase in quality (more people looking at the text) results in slower time-to-market and increased costs.

This audio conference looks at how to move from an uncertain quality outcome to measurable, predictable quality, while presenting an approach to defining, measuring and improving linguistic quality within an organization. The speaker also discusses how to utilize these measurements to meet the organization’s business objectives on a broader scale, spanning improvements in cost and time-to-market.

Bridging the Linguistic Quality Gap: How to Measurably Improve Translation Quality is being presented by Sonia Monahan, Executive Vice President, Quality Systems, with ForeignExchange Translations, and airs on Tuesday, November 10, 2009. For more details or to register, please visit our website at www.fxconferences.com