S03E22: Managing Enterprise Localization Vendors at Scale

Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another exciting interview, and today we meet with Wayne Bourland. We talk to him about managing localization vendors at scale. This topic is of particular interest for enterprises that must manage localization vendors in to become more efficient. It is also an important glimpse into the enterprise buyer mindset, mega MLVs may find this interview extremely enlightening and helpful. 

Wayne discusses various topics in this interview including picking the right suppliers to ensure a good support team, understanding the stakeholder needs and setting up appropriate workflows, the way localization changed in terms of multimedia content, criteria for selecting long term partners for localization, the importance of transparency and effective communication between company, clients and suppliers, how to grow relationships with new suppliers to maximise value, how vendors can maximise the value of investments as ROI for enterprises, how vendor technology is an enabler of growth in the localization function, localization relationship models, how to map scaling of localization vendor relationships into an enterprise’s localization objectives and much more.  

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This episode is sponsored by Hybrid Lynx.