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Strategic Management Tag

Mergers and acquisitions are common in all industries and the translation and localization sectors have seen their fair share of activity in the M&A area in the past decade or so. In this episode of the Translation Company Talk, Christophe Djouani talks about his experiences with M&A, and in particular the ingredients of a successful acquisition which is the objective in every M&A deal. Christophe...

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One of the challenges that most of us face is to push our companies to grow beyond what has naturally been their growth rate or threshold. In this episode, I spoke with Cody Broderick from InWhatLanguage to discuss just that. Cody discusses in depth areas that language companies should be focusing on in order expand and scale up. He addresses key issues that are often...

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We are often confronted with a difficult situation of resource imbalance in language companies. Some of us are more proactive in resource estimation, but there is no perfect formula. Anu Carnegie-Brown, Managing Director of Sandberg Translation Partners, Ltd. spoke with me about best ways to mitigate resource availability situations. Among other things we took a look at in-house and outsourced models and their pros and...

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This is the first episode of the second season of the Translation Company Podcast. It is a special episode because Sultan Ghaznawi, the President of Hybrid Lynx (formerly YYZ Translations), who hosts this podcast reverses roles with his past guests to talk about his involvement in the language industry, his views on technology and NLP in particular, as well as his vision for the future...

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The language translation and localization is a diverse industry and has evolved over the years. Molly Naughton, president of aia Translations speaks with us about what it means to be a woman leader in this industry. We discuss topics such as challenges and obstacles for women in this industry, mentorship opportunities, biases within and outside this industry and Molly's personal experiences in this industry....

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Management is an art and a skill, and not many people in the language industry have received formal schooling in this area. While every human being has some management skills as they manage their life and work, managing a language company is somewhat complicated. Richard Brooks from K-International, talks about what management actually entails in this industry and what type of a mindset you need...

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Sales and selling remains a very unique art in the language translation industry. In this episode of Translation Company Talk, we talk to Francesco Pagano, President of Interpreters and Translators Inc. He is a true veteran of the translation industry and grown up in the trenches, he learnt by doing from an early age. He calls the language industry oldest that mankind knows....

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Kocarek is an Essen, Germany, based translation and localization firm that has gone through several iterations of innovation and evolution. In this episode of the Translation Company Talk, we hear first hand experience from Werner Lierz, CEO and Kerstin Küpper, Head of Translation Management, as well as Alexandra Navruzova-Lang, Head of Project Management at Kocarek....

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